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Saudi Arabia to buy 72 warplanes from Britain for $8.8 billion

By News agencies

Saudi Arabia said on Monday it had signed an agreement with the British government to buy 72 Eurofighter Typhoon jets for nearly $9 billion.

"A contract was signed between the two governments to buy the plane on Tuesday, Shaaban 29 (September 11) at a cost of 4,430 million pounds sterling," a statement on official news agency SPA said, attributed to a Defense Ministry official.

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said the cost per jet was the same as its sale price to British air forces.

Last year it was reported that Saudi Arabia might cancel the deal because of a U.K. fraud investigation into suspicions of graft in defense deals dating to the 1980s. But the deal went ahead after the investigations were closed.

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1.	Throw in two battleships to go please....	14:39	\|	Natallie Durson	17/09/07

2.	Saudi`s and airplanes don`t mix well	14:49	\|	9/11	17/09/07

3.	eurofighter typhoons to Saudi Arabia	14:58	\|	Bruce	17/09/07

4.	To 9/11	15:01	\|	Saudi	17/09/07

5.	No investigations?	15:11	\|	Muffled	17/09/07

6.	To Bruce	15:18	\|	Strategist	17/09/07

7.	Saudis fly coruption to England	15:23	\|	zionist forever	17/09/07

8.	Great news for the UK	16:07	\|	Chris Linthwaite	17/09/07

9.	re: strategist	16:20	\|	ting	17/09/07

10.	But will the profit cover the cost of bribes?	17:07	\|	Mark Lincoln	17/09/07

11.	Muffled - Throw the Poodle a Bone	17:09	\|	Mark Lincoln	17/09/07

12.	Warplanes	17:19	\|	Chaim Gorenstein	17/09/07

13.	I hope Israelis are watching	17:27	\|	Observor	17/09/07

14.	Response to Bruce	17:37	\|	Mark B.	17/09/07

15.	Britain`s sale of Typhoons.	17:40	\|	David Nigel Braham	17/09/07

16.	saudi, you are wrong,get your facts right	17:53	\|	Victor_The_Egyptian	17/09/07

17.	Israel doesn`t have to worry.	17:55	\|	Michael	17/09/07

18.	What a friend to have, Saudi Arabia.	18:02	\|	Mark B.	17/09/07

19.	What was Bandar`s cut ?	18:06	\|	Average Joe	17/09/07

20.	war planes	18:07	\|	sal bando	17/09/07

21.	ISRAELIS HAWE ANSWER IT IS CALLED:"SPYDER"	18:19	\|	ILSupporter	17/09/07

22.	9# FOR NORGE	18:27	\|	ILSupporter	17/09/07

23.	OK, SO THIS IS FOR THE ACADEMIC BOYCOTT	19:01	\|	Robert	17/09/07

24.	War	08:31	\|	pilgrim6177777777777	18/09/07

25.	9/11	14:48	\|	Steve	18/09/07

26.	defens or offensiv	20:11	\|	Patrik	18/09/07

27.	72 Warplanes	03:01	\|	P. J. Casey	19/09/07

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