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 Re: تاجر الموت ..يقتل السودانيين ..اكشفوه يرحمكم الله (Re: أحمد أمين)
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هنا موضوع أخر يوضح أسم الشركة التابعة للسيد جون نايت: وهى سنكلير هولدينقز، ومكاتبها فى منطقة ويست سيسكس بالقرب من مطار قاتويك. وتصف الشركة نفسها بأنها شركة تصدير لأجهزة دفاعية وتتبع سياسة (Low-Profile) فى مسألة تجارة الاسلحة
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Sinclair is a privately owned company incorporated in Ireland with an office near Gatwick airport, West Sussex. Its advertising brochure describes itself as “an export company selling defence equipment products”. Its literature states: “Sinclair follows a policy of low-profile activity in relation to the general arms market.”
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David Leppard and Robert Winnett
A MILLIONAIRE British arms dealer is helping to fuel the bloody civil war in Sudan by arranging to supply its government with a huge arsenal of weapons, including tanks, rocket launchers and a cruise missile.
The Sunday Times has established that John Knight, a Kent businessman, stands to make £2.25m by providing the Sudanese Military Industry Corporation with enough hardware to equip a small army.
Knight, who has close commercial links with the Ministry of Defence in Britain, is believed to have breached European Union and British sanctions by organising the deal. A spokesman for Customs and Excise said: “The UK strongly observes the arms embargo on Sudan and Customs will investigate any suspected breach.”
Leaked documents show that the deal includes 50 Soviet T-72 battle tanks, 100 armoured personnel carriers and fighting vehicles, 30 122mm artillery guns and 12 multiple rocket launchers.
Other papers reveal that Knight is negotiating to sell 5,000 pistols and 150 Super Igla missiles and a Russian cruise missile.
The disclosure will embarrass the British government, which is leading international calls for Sudan to stop the fighting that has already claimed up to 50,000 lives and caused 1m people to flee their homes.
The Sudanese military and the Arab paramilitary Janjaweed groups have been accused of carrying out attacks on the western region of Darfur, causing the humanitarian catastrophe.
Knight, 59, first came to public attention in 1991 during inquiries by The Sunday Times into the business empire of Robert Maxwell, the corrupt newspaper tycoon who died that year. He was approached by a Mirror journalist seeking to buy Kalashnikov rifles.
Since then he has kept a low profile and it would appear that his business has prospered. However, a whistleblower has now come forward to reveal how Knight’s company, Sinclair Holdings 7, is financing the Sudan deal. The company’s website displays a wide range of military hardware which it says is for sale.
The whistleblower revealed that Knight is using eastern European middlemen to source arms from the former Soviet state of Ukraine. These middlemen are able to operate with more freedom because they are outside the EU and its sanctions.
The British security services will be concerned to learn that Sinclair Holdings 7 is trying to get hold of the Super Igla and Russian cruise missiles. In an internal e-mail the company notes that the American government is concerned that such missiles could fall into the hands of terrorists and insurgents in Iraq.
The Super Igla is a Russian surface-to-air missile that was unveiled only last year. It can bring down planes and helicopters at a range of 20,000ft and rarely misses its target.
The Sunburn cruise missile involved was designed as a supersonic anti-ship weapon. It can carry up to 500lb of high explosive or a nuclear payload but has a range of only 75 miles.
The e-mail, written by Knight last month, says: “It is feared by the current US administration that the above types could fall into the bad guys’ hands and become a threat to coalition forces in the Gulf and other regions where armed conflict is now happening.”
The Sudanese government has in the past been accused of harbouring Arab terrorists including Osama Bin Laden.
Sinclair is a privately owned company incorporated in Ireland with an office near Gatwick airport, West Sussex. Its advertising brochure describes itself as “an export company selling defence equipment products”. Its literature states: “Sinclair follows a policy of low-profile activity in relation to the general arms market.” As recently as June this year it negotiated the sale of pistols to the SAS.
Over the past few months the atrocities have intensified with Janjaweed militia being implicated in the massacres and ethnic cleansing of black African villages. An estimated 30,000 to 50,000 people have been killed and more than 1m driven from their homes, forming huge refugee camps across the border in Chad.
This weekend Knight admitted that he had been involved but claimed that he had pulled out “five or six weeks ago” after realising that it would be illegal.
However, documents dated two weeks ago show that he was arranging an inspection visit on behalf of his business partner as part of the final stages of the deal. He denied that the surface-to-air and cruise missiles would be going to Sudan. “They are for a friendly country,” he said
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أحمد أمين
فيس بوك
تويتر
انستقرام
يوتيوب
بنتيريست