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Shadow World Of Arms 1 Major Suppliers Reasons

At the practical level, as the investment is huge for these Industries and you can not afford to keep them idle, they are continued to be manufactured.

But the requirement for the Country's consumption is limited.

Continuous production implies additional investments, that too ,on a large-scale is required.

So the countries that manufacture Arms, export, though paying lip service to" Ban of Arms exports'.

Main Arms Suppliers are :US,Canada,Britain,France,Italy,West Germany(with certain banned manufactures under 1954 Paris Treaty,Sweden,Switzerland, Spain,Belgium, Israel and South Africa.

Of these Western nations, Sweden and Switzerland are neutral Countries, bu still they make finest Weapons.

Israel and South Africa, unsure of their stand in the world of Importing Arms because of their peculiar political situations , have their own Industries.

The other countries are linked by NATO Treaty.

The mutual export and Import is not a problem for them.

Smaller countries requiring import from any of these countries have to get cleared by the War Office and the foreign Office of the respective countries they want to import from.

Major West European Suppliers.

Osama Bin Laden Killing Declassified Documents Bio

I will be posting a series of Documents on the Assassination of Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

These files have been declassified and give an insight into the operation against Osama Bin Laden...One of the earlier publicly available documentary mentions of Bin Laden comes from a 1996 CIA bio sketch entitled “Usama Bin Laden: Islamic Extremist Financer” [Transcription]. It describes Bin Laden, “who joined the Afghan resistance movement in 1979,” as “one of the most significant financial sponsors of Islamic extremist activities in the world.” According to The New York Times, during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the CIA actually helped Bin Laden – who supplied construction equipment from his family’s company in Saudi Arabia – to construct the Tora Bora complex as a base to fight the Soviets. According to Bin Laden, “The [Mujahidin’s] weapons were supplied by the Americans, the money by the Saudis.”