{"id":381330,"date":"2018-10-17T11:01:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T10:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-britain-secretly-training-saudi-air-force-report\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T11:01:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T10:01:41","slug":"presstv-britain-secretly-training-saudi-air-force-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-britain-secretly-training-saudi-air-force-report\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Britain secretly training Saudi air force: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Britain&#8217;s Royal Air Force (RAF) has been\u00a0training Saudi Arabian air force crew over the past four years as part of a secret deal, a report says.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Mail <\/em>can disclose that 111 RAF personnel have been seconded to BAE Systems to train Royal Saudi Air Force aircrew and provide engineering support, including 21 sent during the first five months of this year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, 34 RAF personnel were sent there, with 30 the following year and 26 in 2017, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese personnel were all seconded to BAE Systems to provide training support to Royal Saudi Air Force aircrew and routine aircraft engineering support,\u201d British defense minister Guto Bebb said in a written statement.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, high-ranking British military advisers are in their control rooms to assist the Saudi-led coalition, which has been bombing Yemen since 2015, killing thousands of civilians.<\/p>\n<p>BAE sources, however, have denied any involvement in military operations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"309\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20181017\/62e3454d-aa3d-4ff1-9c92-17fdf5b68111.jpg\"...<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/17\/577220\/UK-Royal-Air-Force-Saudi-Arabia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Royal Air Force (RAF) has been\u00a0training Saudi Arabian air force crew over the past four years as part of a secret deal, a report says.\u00a0 The Daily Mail can disclose that 111 RAF personnel have been seconded to BAE Systems to train Royal Saudi Air Force aircrew and provide engineering support, including 21 sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}