$110bn US-Saudi arms deal is ‘fake news’
NOVANEWS
MEMO
A $110 billion arms deal between Saudi Zio-Wahhabi family and the US, which was touted as the biggest single arms deal in American history has been characterised as “fake news”, a US think tank has said.
Defence industry experts confirmed to experts within the Brookings Institution, that no such deal had been finalised.
There are a bunch of letters of interest or intent, but not contracts said Bruce Riedel, senior fellow at the institute. “Many are offers that the defence industry thinks the Saudis will be interested in someday.”
The Defence Security Cooperation Agency, the arms sales wing of the Pentagon, calls them “intended sales”. The only sale expected in the immediate future was a deal for $1 billion in munitions intended to resupply Saudi Zio-Wahhabi family war in...