911:Military and arms trade

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“The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.” - General Omar Bradley, Armistice Day Speech, 1948
“Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted by Bob Woodward in The Final Days, 1976

Intro

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See also:

  • Arms traders:
    • Adnan Kashoggi
    • Viktor Bout [2]
    • Guus Kouwenhoven [3]
    • Vadim Rabinovich
      • Der Spiegel, the German magazine, said in early January 2002 that Vadim Rabinovich, an Israeli citizen of Ukrainian origin, along with the former director of the Ukrainian secret service and his son sold a consignment of 150 to 200 T-55 and T-62 tanks to the Taliban. Spiegel said the deal was conducted through the Pakistani secret service and uncovered by the Russian foreign intelligence service, SVR, in Kabul, the Afghan capital. A Western intelligence source told the Public Integrity Center that Rabinovich's weapons had been airlifted by one of Bout's airfreight companies from his base in the UAE.[4]
    • Semion Mogilevich [5]
    • Manucher Ghorbanifar
    • Monzer al-Kassar [6]
  • Military spending

  • Worldwide military expenditures in 2008 [1]

  • Worldwide military spending in 2008 as a % of the national GDP (source: CIA World Factbook)

  • Death-and-taxes2008.jpg
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