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Tatties, neeps and bombs
SOLOMON HUGHES spotlights arms manufacturer Raytheon’s Burns Night supper
[David Monniaux]
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EVERY year arms firm Raytheon holds a Burns Night supper in the House of Lords, so the missile-maker should be serving haggis again on January 25, when this column appears.
Raytheon is a US arms firm which makes billions selling bombs to the Saudis. The Saudis use Raytheon’s weapons to blow up men, women and children in the Yemen war.
Its arms sales are so important that President Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, overruled advice from his officials to suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the Yemen war to preserve a $2 billion Raytheon deal.
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