today

Feb 27: CAAT ("Campaign Against the Arms Trade") had launched a legal challenge against the Serious Fraud Office's decision to drop an investigation into alleged bribery by BAE in Saudi Arabia.

BAE allegedly had a "history of infiltrating" the campaign and attempting to obtain information illicitly.

A whistleblower had alleged in 2003 that BAE paid £120,000 a year to a security firm whose agents downloaded files, rifled through personal diaries, carried out surveillance and passed on bank records.

Yesterday, Mr Justice King, sitting at the High Court in London, agreed to grant CAAT a court order which the campaigners hope will help them identify the "mole".

IMO: I pointed out on Feb 18 that Lord Goldsmith had seemingly not been doing his job properly on this and other matters. Laziness, incompetence, theft and fraud. Is that all Britain and the EU has left to offer the world.? The Brits at least sent 1400 more soldiers to Afghanistan but that's less than the number that use one Mumbai slum privy. Certainly the competence of NATO and the West has to be questioned.