Arms trade

BBC helps Saudis whitewash arms trade to Syrian jihadis

The BBC quoted an anonymous Saudi source who insisted that the arms the country imports en masse from the UK are only funnelled to the good Syrian rebels and not the Al Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front.

When a reader pointed out that the groups that the Saudi source named as recipients of UK-manufactured arms included the al-Nusra Front, the BBC quietly edited the story to hide the contradiction, rather than trumpeting the fact that the UK arms industry's biggest customer was arming terrorists that the UK was currently fighting.