MAY 13, 2008 (LPAC)--In light of reports that the government of Chad may have played a role in the recent rebel military actions in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, the question must be asked: Was BAE slush fund money behind this latest destabilization? As Executive Intelligence Review extensively documented last year, BAE Systems, the British defense and aerospace giant, has used the ``Al Yamamah'' deal with Saudi Arabia, and other arms-for-oil barter deals with other countries, to build up a massive off-budget covert fund, which has been used to run British intelligence operations around the globe, since 1985, when Prince Bandar bin-Sultan negotiated the first of the ``Al Yamamah'' deals with then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. EIR's estimate is that ``Al Yamamah'' alone generated $100 billion in untraceable off-shore funds, that have fueled destabilizations around the globe.

In his authorized biography, {The Prince}, by William Simpson, Prince Bandar freely admitted that the ``Al Yamamah'' fund was a geopolitical covert program, involving Saudi Arabia and Great Britain, and that one of the covert programs run through the ``Al Yamamah'' operation was the arming of Chad, to repel Libyan invaders. Simpson wrote: ``Although Al Yamamah constitutes a highly unconventional way of doing business, its lucrative spin-offs are the by-product of a wholly political objective: a Saudi political objective and a British political objective. Al Yamamah is, first and foremost, a political contract. Negotiated at the height of the Cold War, its unique structure has enabled the Saudis to purchase weapons from around the globe to fund the fight against Communism. Al Yamamah money can be found in the clandestine purchase of Russian ordnance used in the expulsion of Qadaffi's troops from Chad. It can also be traced to arms bought from Egypt and other countries, and sent to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan fighting the Soviet occupying forces.''

Several African governments are currently investigating the ``Al Yamamah'' scheme, and other BAE operations, that have fueled wars and destabilizations throughout Africa, over the past several decades.