{"id":304682,"date":"2017-04-22T17:32:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T16:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-hails-arms-supplier-of-gaddafi-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2017-04-22T17:32:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T16:32:46","slug":"uk-hails-arms-supplier-of-gaddafi-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-hails-arms-supplier-of-gaddafi-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"UK hails arms supplier of Gaddafi, Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The British defense secretary has praised a notorious missile manufacturer, which is known for weapon sales to Libya\u2019s former assassinated\u00a0ruler\u00a0Muammar Gaddafi and the Saudi Kingdom, which has been engaged in a military aggression against Yemen for more than two years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Fallon said on Friday that the firm, MBDA, is a \u201crole model\u201d for the sort of business that his country will be engaged in once it leaves the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing staff members of the company&#8217;s headquarters in the town of Stevenage, he said that MBDA\u00a0is \u201cstrengthening the reputation of this country\u201d with its work and that it is \u201ca role model for the kind of partnerships we\u2019ll be seeking\u201d after leaving the union.<\/p>\n<p>Fallon said MBDA had built \u201ca great reputation manufacturing missiles that keep us safe.\u201d He also announced that the UK has signed a contract with the company to supply his country with three new missile systems.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"310\" width=\"550\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170422\/2e2735dc-11cf-41eb-b8d4-8c614ca9f7a8.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Anti-arms trade activist&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/04\/22\/519040\/UK-politics-arms-company-Brexit-Muammar-Gaddafi-Saudi-aggression\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British defense secretary has praised a notorious missile manufacturer, which is known for weapon sales to Libya\u2019s former assassinated\u00a0ruler\u00a0Muammar Gaddafi and the Saudi Kingdom, which has been engaged in a military aggression against Yemen for more than two years. Michael Fallon said on Friday that the firm, MBDA, is a \u201crole model\u201d for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-304682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}