What is the share of arms sales of the SIPRI Top 100 for 2020 by country?

USA 🇺🇸 54%
China 🇨🇳 13%
UK 🇬🇧 7.1%
Russia 🇷🇺 5%
France 🇫🇷 4.7%
Trans-European 🇪🇺 3%
Italy 🇮🇹 2.6%
Israel 🇮🇱 2%
Japan 🇯🇵 1.9%
Germany 🇩🇪 1.7%
South Korea 🇰🇷 1.2%
India 🇮🇳 1.2%
Other 3.4%

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— SIPRI (@SIPRIorg) December 6, 2021

One of Israel's most corrupt billionaire oligarchs, Dan Gertler, raped the Congo, then used @AlanDersh & Louis Freeh to buy his way out of US sanctions. They in turn recruited Steve Mnuchin & Mike Pompeo to run interference for them: [_link]

— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) February 22, 2021

Israel's Oligarchs and Blood Diamonds

Diamond Dealers in Deep Trouble as Bank Documents Shine Light on Secret Ways | ICIJ - Feb. 9, 2015 |

Louis Freeh's Last Case | The New Yorker - May 14, 2001 |

On June 25, 1996, shortly before 10 p.m., three sentries posted on a rooftop at Khobar Towers, a high-rise compound that housed the two thousand American military personnel assigned to the King Abdul Aziz Airbase, in Saudi Arabia, noticed a tanker truck pull up to a perimeter fence. The area had been declared a likely target for a terrorist attack, and when the sentries saw two men jump out of the truck into a car and speed away they recognized the possibility of a bomb. They desperately tried to evacuate the building ....

Louis Freeh Praises Saudi Cooperation on Khobar Investigation | Saudi Embassy - Oct. 9, 2002 |

Freeh Became "Defence Lawyer" for Saudis on Khobar Towers bombing

When Freeh took the accounts from the Shi'a detainees in interrogations witnessed by the FBI team, however, the Justice Department didn't buy them as valid testimony. The department refused to go ahead with an indictment as Freeh had desired, evidently based on the same objection that had been raised two years earlier: the Shi'a had been subject to torture.

But in January 2001, President George W. Bush kept Freeh on as FBI director. Freeh told the new president that Iran had masterminded the Khobar bombing, according to his testimony before the 9/11 Commission, and the Justice Department then began collaborating with Freeh on an indictment of the Saudi Hezbollah which implicated Iran in the Khobar bombing.

The indictment was announced on Jun. 21, 2001 - Freeh's last day as FBI director.

Highly credible evidence soon showed, however, that the Mabahith, the Saudi secret police, did indeed use torture and coercion to get detainees to tell the stories demanded by the Saudi regime - even in front of foreign observers - and that they did so to protect al Qaeda from investigation by the United States.

Muzzling Critical Voices | Amnesty International |

'Sapere aude'

French law enforcement sure have some explaining to do.

That Saudi man arrested yesterday at the Paris airport, turns out he just shares a name with one of the suspects. Ooops.

Not that the Khashoggi case is sensitive or high profile.https://t.co/TXEe40nQBr

— Rym Momtaz ريم ممتاز (@RymMomtaz) December 8, 2021

He will become one of the first Western leaders to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the kingdom since Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed and dismembered inside Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul in 2018.

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— Pakistan Today (@ePakistanToday) December 4, 2021

Emmanuel Macron identified in leaked Pegasus project data | The Guardian |

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'Sapere aude'