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UK government demanding payment for arms sales to dictator Mubarak

Categories: Articles:Third World Debt, Articles:Peace & Disarmament | Published: 02/11/2011 | Views: 300
Newly uncovered documents by Jubilee Debt Campaign reveal that Vince Cable’s Department for Business is still demanding money from the Egyptian government in payment for loans made to General Mubarak to allow him to buy arms.  Egypt owes £100 million to the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), nicknamed ‘the Department for Dodgy Deals’ because of its support for arms, aviation and fossil fuels.

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