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Did David Miliband forget Britain’s selling of Typhoon fighter jets to Saudi Arabia while he was Foreign Secretary? The ex-MP was labelled a hypocrite after he decries the kingdom over their war in Yemen.<\/p>\n
Tweets derided the former MP and his apparent aboutface. One read: \u201cTyphoon jets anyone,\u201d<\/em> while another asked: \u201cDidn\u2019t you approve the sale of fighter jets now bombing them [Yemenis] when [you were] foreign secretary?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n YES. The assassination of #Khasoggi<\/a> is an appalling crime. We often don\u2019t know the victims\u2019 names but we owe them an end to support for a war going nowhere. @theirc<\/a> is on the ground but we need new politics to kick in now.https:\/\/t.co\/Qzq82CEk7H<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 David Miliband (@DMiliband) October 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n One tweet from the anti-War on Terror group Cage UK read: \u201cDavid Miliband when Foreign Sec used to sell the same bombs that kill the people he now wants to help\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Make money from selling weapons then make money heading a disaster charity. I feel sick. I stopped donating to @theIRC<\/a> the day @DMiliband<\/a> got the job<\/p>\n \u2014 Tim Piotr (@tim_piotr) October 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Typhoon jets anyone? You make me sick.<\/p>\n \u2014 Two Flames 🇵🇸 (@msjenniferjames) October 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Miliband was made the UK\u2019s Foreign Secretary in June 2007, the day after Gordon Brown became PM. On September 17, that year, Saudi Arabia confirmed that they had ordered<\/a> 72 Eurofighter Typhoon warplanes from the UK at a cost of \u00a34.43 billion, then $8.86 billion.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0Beyond Orwellian: Myth of UK’s ‘non-intervention’ in Syria<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Most famous in the UK for losing the Labour leadership race to his brother Ed, Miliband left frontline politics in 2010, he is now the President of the partly-US funded International Rescue Committee, who have boasted Henry Kissinger and Madeline Albright <\/a>on their \u2018Board of Directors and Overseers.\u2019<\/p>\n As well as his questionable dealings with the Saudis, Miliband has a host of other allegations stemming from his time heading up the Foreign Office. Historian Mark Curtis, writing in the Middle East Eye, detailed how Julian Assange\u2019s Wikileaks exposed<\/a> Miliband’s foreign office for \u201chelping the US to sidestep a ban on cluster bombs and keep the weapons at US bases on UK soil,\u201d<\/em> among other allegations.<\/p>\n My latest piece in @MiddleEastEye<\/a> provides a snapshot of some of Wikileaks’ revelations about British foreign policy in the Middle East \u2013 including on Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Libya, Diego Garcia, spying and Trident. https:\/\/t.co\/CzqojkwXrN<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Mark Curtis (@markcurtis30) October 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Miliband is one of a plethora of establishment figures who have denounced Saudi Arabia over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, despite past or current dealings with the country, including liberal publications in both the UK and US.<\/p>\n In his tweet, Miliband linked to a slick New York Times piece, published on Saturday headlined: \u201cThis is the front line of Saudi Arabia\u2019s invisible war.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n
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