THE BLACK FILES: Small arms proliferation and United States of America

A summary of a special research on "Small arms proliferation and United States of America." TEENSCRIPT ORIGINALS

• August 9, 2018: A fighter jet dropped a bomb in Dahyan, yemen (a busy marketplace). The plane was from a coalition led by Saudi Arabia. They have conducted thousands of air strikes in Yemen in civilian areas since 2015.

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• The serial number of the bomb, 94271 corresponds to a 500 pounds laser guided bomb, manufactured by LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION. It was made in the USA.

• USA is the largest arms exporter in the world, and to the largest arms and ammunitions exporter, Saudi Arabia is the largest arms importer.

• When war broke out amongst Israel and its neighboring Arab states, USA gave Israel f-14 fighter jets, and thousands of tons of arms and ammunitions.

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• For getting a control over the middle east, the USA exported millions of dollars in arms and weapons, ensuring that USSR doesn't influence anything. This created a deadly arms race in the middle east. And Saudi Arabia was the biggest buyer thanks to the US.

• United Nations experts’ points that many of the Saudi led bombings on civilians were intentional. More than 31% of the affected were normal civilians of Yemen each time they bomb.

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• US government provided 1 billion dollars of taxpayer money to a private security force blackwater and gave them arms and weapons and security clearances. A private security force fighting like mercenaries in areas of conflict with the support for US government under the jurisdiction of blackwater. A private security company? In 2007, the guards of blackwater open fired on unarmed civilians in Iraq leading to deaths. In a crowded public square killing 17 civilians and injuring 20 more. The guards were tried and convicted, but then, they were completely pardoned.

• Two guys from America, known as the war dogs (also a movie made after them with the same name) they were early 20 years old guys, they decided to open their own arms trading company. The Pentagon gave them an offer of 300 million dollars to supply arms off to Afghanistan. They purchased arms from China and sold them to the department of defense! (Big no no) They were caught afterwards, but it was very late when the Pentagon found about that. Reflects the carelessness of pentagon regarding arms and ammunition trades and reckless spending on arms and ammunitions. Shows the culture of getting reckless money from the Pentagon and its lack of security checks and verifications. A 20-year-old massage therapist who never owned a gun before, opened a guns and ammunition company and got 300 million dollars of contract from the Pentagon.

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