Peacekeepers as arms dealers

UN peacekeepers in Congo are said to have sold weapons and ammunition
to rebels. In return for this they should have received gold and
ivory.

Soldiers of the UN peacekeeping troops in Congo have sold information
to the British broadcaster BBC weapons and ammunition to rebels in
eastern Congo. For the weapons were the peacekeepers from India and
Pakistan, gold and ivory, such as the BBC reported. The United Nations
had established in the fall, but made ​​no official charges to
Pakistan and India not to annoy as important sending countries of UN
peacekeepers. Officially it was called, there is insufficient evidence
had been available.

"It's true, they gave us weapons," said the jailed rebel leader Mateso
Ninga. "They said it was for the security of the country." According
to the BBC report made ​​some of the peacekeepers, arms deals with
Hutu militias, which participation is accused of genocide against the
Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. For smuggling of ivory for weapons is also a
UN helicopter was used, the report said. BBC claims to have conducted
its own investigation for 18 months and seen confidential documents
relating to an internal investigation by the UN.

The UN Mission in Congo (MONUC) has deployed 17,000 troops. It is
currently the largest in the world. Fighting in eastern Congo despite
a peace agreement Tutsi rebels against government troops and Hutu
militias. All parties to the conflict are accused of serious human
rights violations.

US remains the world's biggest military arms dealer

Despite recession-related decline in sales - Italy in second place

Washington - The United States has expanded despite a
recession-induced decline in global arms sales, according to a study
by the U.S. Congress in 2008 its top position as the largest arms
dealer on. As the "New York Times" (Sunday on the Internet), reported
to the U.S. accounted for 68.4 percent of the global arms trade. The
signed weapons contracts with the U.S. had had a value of 37.8 billion
dollars (26.4 billion euros). 2007, there were $ 25.4 billion.

The increase was due not only to large orders from new customers in
the Middle East and Asia but also to the ongoing global demand for
U.S. arms, it said.

Second place in the global arms trade have held Italy with 3.7
billion dollars. Russia is in third place with $ 3.5 billion. In 2007,
there were still $ 10.8 billion for Moscow. Worldwide arms deals worth
$ 55.2 billion had been settled. That would mean a decline of 7.6
percent compared to 2007, wrote on the paper. The decline in the arms
trade last year was due to the fact that many countries had taken
because of the recession of the award of new contracts spacing, wrote
the report's author, Richard Grimmett

Canada: arms dealer Schreiber should be extradited

Arms lobbyist is considered conclusions figure in the CDU / CSU
donations scandal
Toronto - A judge in Canada has approved the delivery of the arms
lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber to Germany. Justice David Watt of the
Ontario Supreme Court will order the extradition of 28 Sign May,
prosecutor Howard Piafsky said on Tuesday in Toronto. The decision is
not yet final because writers can appeal to the Canadian Justice
Department, which would have the last word about his possible
extradition.

Schreiber, who was a key figure in the affairs of donations CDU and
CSU, defends himself for many years after his extradition from
Germany. There is an arrest warrant against him is the Augsburg
prosecutor for tax evasion, bribery and aiding of infidelity. He
should have paid in 1991 in connection with the delivery of tanks to
Saudi Arabia detection kickbacks worth millions to politicians and
other officials.

The German-Canadian businessman was arrested in 1999 on German
request, in Canada, but was released after eight days again

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