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“Sweden has in secret been helping Saudi Arabia plan the construction of an arms factory to produce anti-tank missiles, public broadcaster Swedish Radio reported Tuesday. The Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI) has helped Saudi Arabia since 2007, though construction on “Project Simoom” has yet to begin, the radio said citing hundreds of classified documents and interviews with key players. Sweden has in the past sold weapons to Saudi Arabia, but classified government documents state that Project Simoom “pushes the boundaries of what is possible for a Swedish authority,” the radio said. “The fact that an authority such as FOI is involved in the planning of a weapons factory for a government in a dictatorship such as Saudi Arabia is quite unique,” the radio said…………”


Maybe the Swedes, like the British and the Americans, are not aware of how repressive the Saudi regime is. Maybe they are not aware that only last year it invaded Bahrain to crush the people’s uprising. At least the Swedes are pretending to be embarrassed and they try doing it secretly. They agonize over it. The Western powers can’t get enough weapons deals out of the Persian Gulf states. If you think this is opportunistic, wait until they discover huge petroleum reserves in North Korea.