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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Nobody: 3:10pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
International thief thief (ITT).......our president wil set up committee to look into d matter....yeye! yeye!! 1 Like |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Skywalker5(m): 3:10pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
Na wa oo. Why our politicians dey do this na? 1 Like |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Truckpusher(m): 3:14pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
omenka:Once great country? Are you an alien? |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by obailala(m): 3:14pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
Abraham2013: eddie000:It really beats my imagination that there are normal human beings who will openly support and defend this kind of illegality to the extent of blaming SA. Just before I assume quickly, please are you guys even normal? 10 Likes |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by eleko1: 3:15pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
Do we care here? The same Niagra they Ave milked/sucked dry,battered and plummeted left and rite?Suffering and smilling OkikiOluwa1: |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Ayostically: 3:17pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
Dotman01:They only went to giv them the balance. $15mil, that is ehn... |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Afritop(m): 3:17pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
Atimes I wonder if it is a crime to commit this bulk of money to the development of the economy. And whether the citizens have wronged its leaders 2 Likes |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by teeboy2110(m): 3:27pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
What a shameful country his peoples are suffering for money n development. 4 Likes |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by ezugegere(m): 3:32pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
Read this article and know that even America purchases arms from the black markets: The Sheraton hotel in Sofia, Bulgaria, is a neoclassical colossus built during the Soviet era. The rear end of the building butts up on a 4th- century church and mossy Roman ruins, and it dwarfs the country’s adjoining presidential palace. Inside the hotel, a dark-eyed woman in a pantsuit invites guests to the erotic nightclub in the hotel basement. Skip the strip club, and there’s a hotel bar with a spacious lounge, where carpeting absorbs sound, and marble pillars reflect the light of the massive crystal chandeliers. It is here that a short, heavyset, American arms dealer visiting from Fresno, Calif., held his business meetings. Bulgarian weapons dealers said that this man — 53-year-old Ara Dolarian — was likable and garrulous. He was often there on behalf of the U.S. government or its allies, shopping for weapons destined for America’s most difficult and dangerous foreign-policy tangles, such as Iraq and Afghanistan. From 2006 until last year, Dolarian managed to get contracts affiliated with the U.S. government that ranged from less than $20,000 to $14 million. One $588,000 Dolarian deal last year was for an operation still shrouded in secrecy. American commandos wanted dozens of Kalashnikov rifles, a handful of the massive, Soviet bloc machine guns nicknamed Dushkas to mount on trucks, some rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition — a standard package for a foreign quick-reaction force that the U.S. could train and deploy, according to special forces veterans who perused the shopping list for BuzzFeed. It isn’t clear what group the U.S. intended to arm with this contract, parts of which are apparently classified, though the timing fit with secret U.S. training programs for Syrian rebel forces. Intelligence agencies and the military declined to comment. They also declined to comment on whether they knew certain pertinent facts about Dolarian: When his company landed the subcontract to buy these weapons, he was the subject of a federal criminal grand jury investigation for possibly violating U.S. arms-dealing laws and had been found by a civil court in California to have defrauded investors there. Dolarian’s tale highlights how the U.S. relies on small but important defense-contracting bottom fish to arm some of the world’s most violent and unstable military forces. The U.S. is famously the largest arms exporter in the world . Less well-known is that America also purchases massive amounts of foreign-made weapons, most of them manufactured in the former Soviet bloc. In an effort to build up and train friendly security services, the U.S. saturates some the most violent regions of the world with these arms but has little control over who ultimately gets them. The Pentagon or U.S. intelligence agencies often issue contracts themselves for these weapons. But other times, American tax dollars go through a proxy, such as an Afghan government agency, which issues the contract but which is heavily funded and guided by the U.S. Dolarian was involved in both types of contracts. While most coverage of the weapons trade tracks the multibillion-dollar deals in fighter jets, strategic missiles, or radar systems, most killing in modern wars is done with cheap rifles, machine guns, mortars, and other small arms. Over the last decade, the U.S. has sent more than 700,000 weapons — the vast majority foreign-made small arms — to Afghanistan, where President Barack Obama has staked his strategy on training and arming the army and police. Likewise, in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, the U.S. disbanded the security forces only to rebuild and rearm new ones for eight years, sending over a million weapons by some estimates. The majority of these were Russian- designed small arms. These are the types of arms that Dolarian, a man the state of California banned from selling certain financial securities, was given U.S. tax dollars to purchase. This line of work has seen its share of scandal. In 2007, the Pentagon awarded a $300 million contract for Warsaw Pact ammunition to a company run by a 21-year-old Miami man, Efraim Diveroli, who had limited experience in the arms trade. The story of Diveroli, later convicted of fraud after his company sent decades-old, flawed ammunition to Afghanistan, is set to be made into Hollywood movie called Arms and the Dudes. Since that fiasco, the government has tried to use well-known, established defense contractors to equip Afghanistan’s forces, and procure this type of weaponry. But as the Dolarian tale shows, it doesn’t always work out that way. |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by seunlayi(m): 3:33pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
some people are truly sabotaging Nigeria effort to hurriedly acquire better weapon. south African govt are involved, they want naija to fail 1 Like |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by GoodcasHMan: 3:35pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
UNTIL WE ARE ABLE TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN [i][/i]CORRUPTION AND STEALING [i][/i]THERE IS A GREAT PROBLEM 1 Like
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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Nobody: 3:36pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
How dumb are Nigerians and Nairaland in particular? The write up tries desperately to link previous events with the current. No where was it stated that the money flight originated from government circles other than that the money was intercepted from a flight out of Nigeria. The first paragraph only mentions money seizures and the country of origin. The author then sneakishly loops previous events into it making the 2 events seem like one. Over 90% of the write up is dedicated to the last event and nothing to do with this latest cash seizure. For all we know it can be a governor ferrying cash as they are used to in the past. 2 Likes |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by teniola55(m): 3:37pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
Nlmadfreak: Nlmadfreak: Now, i think this is becoming insane.. What are they now taking us for?? Nlmadfreak:as in |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by wharleniquary1: 3:38pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
eyaah! S/A again y always we? |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Virgindove(f): 3:39pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
Where are the TAN volunteers? Is this the type of transformation you want Nigerians to continue with? 4 Likes |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Nobody: 3:40pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
wonders shall start! |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by teniola55(m): 3:40pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by teniola55(m): 3:40pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
keemaQ: |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by justhelp(m): 3:41pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
am not surprise since we have clueless President and SA want to take us down from best economy in Africa and demote us back to number 2, they are not happy since we take over from them, now they are looking for ways to disgrace us and our number man has no clue about this, what a useless leader we have. |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by deScifa(m): 3:43pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
duni04: Nigeria under GEJ 2 Likes |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Nobody: 3:45pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
justhelp:I think you are the foolish one here like most of the posters. The author decieved you. There is no mention of the identities of the individuals caught with this new seizure and no link to the FG. The main story you are arguing back and forth ends in the first paragraph. The author then loops the previous case in as part of the new seizure. For all we know the cash could be linked to Tinubu and Sanusi. Why not wait for more details than to rush in like a rabid bull and post your crap. If in doubt read the article again. 1 Like |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by EldaTimba(m): 3:49pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
RevDesmondJuju:Don't mind the dumb nairalanders. Most people commenting never read the article. 1 Like |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by ransomed: 3:49pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
They force us to go cashless but, they are carrying cash up and down even to other Nations. We never have leaders, we are being controlled by RULERS.. 3 Likes |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Billygee2u: 3:50pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
omenka:so because you want GMB,you condemned the GEJ government ? |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Nobody: 3:54pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
TheIndustrialist: A wise man once said believe nothing you read and half of only what you see. |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by justhelp(m): 3:54pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
RevDesmondJuju:Animal continue showing ur stupidity here because u are too useless to be useful like FG anyway i dont blame u cos u are not well brought up that is why u lack values just like ur forefathers |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by valmunich(m): 3:55pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
What the fvck is actually wrong with our government? 3 Likes |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by DMerciful(m): 3:55pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
Who cares! keemaQ: |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Nobody: 3:56pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
justhelp: I don't blame you. You were born stup1d. In short I believe your condition should be classified as a mental handicap and should be place high up with autism. |
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Nobody: 3:57pm On Oct 06, 2014 |
valmunich: read the original post again and this time around do it slowly and try to comprehend the dubious author's intended objectives. |
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