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Netherlands / Nederland (see
also 22, 25)
1 – 171018: Due to my work
investigating arms exports I know the names of three of the ten
richest people of the Nehterlands. One because of a recent rumour.
Two already for decades. https://www.moneymakers.com/top-10-richest-people-in-the-netherlands/
2 – 181018: Dutch parliament adopted
resolution (GreenLeft VanOjik) to aim for an European arms embargo on
Saudi Arabia at the EU top in Brussels. Only the (far) right win of
the parliament voted against: VVD, SGP en Forum voor Democratie. Motie%20van%20het%20lid%20Van%20Ojik%20c.s.%20over%20stoppen%20met%20leveren%20van%20wapens%20aan%20Saoedi-Arabi%C3%AB.pdf
EUROPE
3 – 171018:COUNCIL REGULATION (EU)
2018/1542, 151018 restrictive measures against proliferation and use
of chemical weapons
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R1542&from=EN
COUNCIL DECISION (CFSP) 2018/1544,
151018 restrictive measures against proliferation and use of chemical
weapons
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018D1544&from=EN
4 – 221018 (retweet @Diederik_Cops): Will arms exports from Belgium to Saudi Arabia be suspended
because of the #Kashoggi case? Walloon government licenced arms
exports to Saudi Arabia worth more than 5 billion euros since 2010,
Flemish arms exports valued at 1.2 million euros in the same period.
France
(see also 13)
5 – 211018: Though the CEO Thales,
Patrice Caine, pulled out of the conference, the French company is
sending a subordinate the Saudis would respect, and a spokesman,
Cédric Leurquin, said Thales hadn't changed its position on
investing in Saudi Arabia. Although Mr. Leurquin would not divulge
sales figures for KSA, Thales has 700 employees in the kingdom,
supplies with military hardware, missiles, electronic warfare systems
and even high-techsecurity surveillance systems for Mecca and other holy sites https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/business/ceos-saudi-money.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fmichael-j.-de-la-merced
6 – 161018: Thales Nederland STIR EO
MK 2 radar/electro-optical (EO) tracker in place of the Safran VIGY
MM EO director at French FREDA frigates (fregates de défense
aériennes/anti-air warfare (AAW)).
https://www.janes.com/article/83618/first-freda-frigate-takes-shape
Germany / Deutchland
7 – 211018: Germany’s foreign
minister is calling into question the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia,
after the kingdom acknowledged that writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed
in its Istanbul consulate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/the-latest-turkey-pol-criticizes-saudi-khashoggi-statement/2018/10/20/a8ded75c-d444-11e8-a4db-184311d27129_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.c6bceec2df0d
8 – 211018: Amid heightened scrutiny
of Riyadh over the apparent murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi,
Germany approves 416.4 million euros worth of arms in what may be a
breach of a coalition agreement by Angela Merkel
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/germany-approves-half-a-billion-euros-worth-of-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-1.6573590
Greece / Ellas
9 – 161018: Proposal for the Damen
Sigma 10514 frigate for Greece. Damen Sigma: Μια πιθανή λύση
για το ΠΝ αντί για τις Belharra και FREMM - ΦΩΤΟ
-
http://www.onalert.gr/stories/damen-sigma-mia-piuanh-lysh-gia-to-pn-anti-gia-tis-belharra-kai-fremm/71870
via @OnAlertfeed
UK (see also 28)
10 – 151018: UK political groups
spied on by undercover police – the list; DSEI arms fair
protests included.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2018/oct/15/uk-political-groups-spied-on-undercover-police-list
REST of the world
Australia
11 – 221018: Australian Government
move to keep from the public details of the Defence Department's
contract with French-owned company Thales Australia for the purchase
of 1100 Hawkei combat vehicles. detail faces renewed scrutiny.
https://www.afr.com/news/government-move-to-block-defence-contract-detail-faces-renewed-scrutiny-20181022-h16yf6
Brasil
12 – 171018: Damen and Saab offer the
transfer of knowledge to Brazil if the country buys the corvettes
offered by the Swedish-Dutch team. (Damen-Saab Tamandaré promete
transferência de tecnologia caso construa corvetas)
https://www.portosenavios.com.br/noticias/ind-naval-e-offshore/damen-saab-tamandare-promete-transferencia-de-tecnologia-caso-construa-corvetas
China / Zhōngguó (see
18)
Egypt / Mişr
13 – 161018: Egypt: How French Arms
Were Used to Crush Dissent draws on analysis by Amnesty's Digital
Verification Corps of +20 hours of open source video footage,
hundreds of photo's & 450 gig of further audio-visual material
from local human rights groups and media.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur21/9038/2018/en/
Israël / Isra'il (see
also 24)
14 – 211018: Revealed: Israel's
cyber-spy industry helps world dictators hunt dissidents and gays
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-israel-s-cyber-spy-industry-aids-dictators-hunt-dissidents-and-gays
Saudi Arabia / Al-Arabiyah as
Sa'udiyah (see also 2, 4, 5,
7-8, 29)
15 – 151018: Saudis reject threats
after Trump comments.
http://wjhl.com/news/national/saudis-reject-threats-as-stocks-plunge-after-trump-comments/1523015974
Trade statistics export/import
https://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/saudi-arabia/tradestats
Saudi Import:
- 1) China
- 2) US
- 3) Germany
- 4) Japan
- 5) UAE
- 6) S Korea
- 7) India
- 8) Italy
- 9) France
- 10) UK
- 13) Switzerland
- 15) Spain
- 19) Netherlands
16 – 151018: Newsweek piece on US
weapon sales to Saudia Arabia. Includes graph based on SIPRI data:
17 – 171018: Business is boycotting
Saudi Arabia's big conference. Here's who's still going @CNNI #Thales
https://cnn.it/2CL5qLk Who is and isn't going from the
Netherlands?
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/15/business/saudi-arabia-conference-attendees/index.html
18 – 171018: Trump fears China could
replace US in arms sales to Saudi. He shouldn’t. China may engage
more with KSA if Washington imposes sanctions over disappearance and
presumed murder of Khashoggi, but it cannot supplant US arms sales as
he believes, analysts say.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2168849/china-may-seek-boost-ties-saudi-arabia-it-cant-fill-us-arms
19 – 171018: Slowly - too slowly? -
support moven away from crown prince MBS. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a key
defender of U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia, has vowed never to work
with the kingdom so long as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is in
charge.
https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2018/10/16/saudi-arabia-is-losing-lindsey-graham-a-key-ally-of-us-arms-sales/
21 – 211018: BigLaw
Firms Quiet About Lobbying Ties To Saudi Arabia. Gibson Dunn &
Crutcher LLP is the only major US law firm to end its lobbying
relationship with KSA after its involvement in a journalist's death,
as five other major law firms are keeping quiet.
https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2018/10/18/gibson-dunn-ends-saudi-arabia-lobbying-contract/?slreturn=20180922044805
UAE / Al-Imarat Al-Arabiyah
Al-Muttahidah (see 23-24, 25)
Ukraine / Ukrajina
22 – 171018: Q&A Dutch government
if of the opinion that arms sales to the Ukraine don't support a
solution for the conflict. However some small military exports
happened, but other requests for export permissions were denied.
https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/kamerstukken/2018/10/17/beantwoording-vragen-over-wapenleveranties-aan-oekraine
Yemen / Al-Yaman
23 – 181018: US mercenaries — some
of whom were ex-special operators with Army Special Forces, SEAL Team
6, and the CIA — were hired by the UAE in 2015 to take part in a
"targeted assassination program in Yemen," BuzzFeed News
investigation. #SpearOperationsGroup
https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-us-special-ops-reportedly-hired-to-assassinate-yemeni-politicians-2018-10
25 – 221018: The battle for Hodeida
begun. There are reported coalition airstrikes and shelling by naval
ships. Guess who is delivering the UAE (2nd in the coalition) naval
vessels with canons? The Dutch.
https://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/yemeni-military-begin-operation-on-hodeidah-1.2236081#.W82TZPQ0qBw.twitter
DEFENCE-INDUSTRY
26 – 191018: CEO of biggest Dutch
naval wharf takes position for Belgium to look after (as honorari
consul ) Brussels interests in the rovince of Zeeland. More close the
interest of the Netherlands biggest arms exporter and a State can
hardly become.
https://www.ad.nl/zeeland/scheldedirecteur-wordt-ere-consul-van-belgie~af6dd691/
27 – 211018: Long read: The sales
strategy of the largest Dutch ship wharf. De doorgeschoten verkooplui
van Hollands grootste scheepsbouwer.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2018/10/19/de-doorgeschoten-verkooplui-van-hollands-grootste-scheepsbouwer-a2665456
via @nrc
MBDA
28 – 151018: MBDA BV (Rotterdam):
this holding seems to be a dovecot for persons with a BAES background
one of the other replaced.
https://drimble.nl/bedrijf/rotterdam/20150695/mbda-bv.html
Thales (see
also 6, 9, 11, 17)
Letter box companies (see
28)
WEAPENS
Arms fairs (see
10)
Drones
30 – 161018: The MQ-9 Reaper #drone
is now flown by the US in Ukrainian airspace, taking off from
Miroslawiec airbase in Poland. Read more on drone politics in both
Poland and Ukraine on our website: http://www.efadrones.org/countries
F-35
31 – 171018: About 20% of F-35s still
down. Last week, the Pentagon’s joint progam office ordered all
Joint Strike Fighters to stay on the ground until fuel tubes could be
inspected. Many were found in need of replacement.
https://www.defenseone.com/news/2018/10/rogue-killers-us-mercs-hired-kill-yemen-20-f-35s-still-down-army-wants-bigger-gun-and-just-bit-more/152058/ …
via @defenseone
32 – 171018: Next large problem: F-35
is set to move into operational testing next month — a milestone
that precedes the Pentagon’s decision on whether to begin full-rate
production — but there are already signs that it may not be able to
complete testing on time. #JSF
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2018/10/17/heading-into-f-35-operational-tests-threat-of-delays-loom/
Nukes
33 – 181018: When a US navy vessel
visited a port it was always a question is it nuclear armed (Terrier,
Asroc, subroc). But the US policy was: neither confirm nor deny. Some
are longing to that past and propose: Bring Tactical Nukes Back to
the Fleet.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2018-10/bring-tactical-nukes-back-fleet
Observation technology (IT) (see
14)
Speciale Forces (see
23-24)
OTHER
Corruption and fraud (see
27, alledged)
Defence budget
34 – 221018: VPRO Argos (radio) over
Defensie en de negatieve krantenkoppen, begroting, structuur etc.
https://www.vpro.nl/argos/media/afleveringen/2018/Krijgsmacht-in-het-slop.html
Refugees (see
29)
Research and activism (see
10, 13, 29)
Espionage (see
10)
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and defence-industry weight heavier in the selection. If you want to
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