Nuclear Weapons - Texas Marine Sues Defense Contractor - Alleging Retaliation

San Antonio, Texas

A Medal involving Honor person who manually filed a defamation suit inside San Antonio in opposition to a British protection builder this particular full week claimed the actual provider retaliated against him right after he objected on the sale made of any high-tech sniper scope to help Pakistan.

Dakota Meyer, the actual primary being Marine to receive the actual nation's highest dignity to get valor because Vietnam War, argued that his organisation had been endangering GIs by simply interested in advertise the particular chance to be able to "the exact individuals who are usually killing some of our guys."

Observers knowledgeable about that Pentagon's procurement process claim their worries usually are legitimate as well as may not be new. The United States, the actual international biggest biceps exporter, possesses purchased weapons to many people nations in which used to be allies but afterwards started to be enemies.

"Sometimes these systems visit to help chunk people while in the back end, like the selling involving F-14s as well as other aircraft to help Iran from the 1970s, (and) providing items towards mujahedeen (in Afghanistan) in the '70s along with '80s," claimed Winslow Wheeler, director belonging to the Straus Military Reform Project with the Center intended for Defense Information.

"Our romance using Pakistan is a superb example," they added. "We've sold all of them F-16s, in addition to we sat about our palms because they will produced nuclear weapons ."

Foreign navy sales, as they're called, are really worth $327 billion annually, as outlined by that Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency. Meyer, a sergeant that obtained this Medal of Honor from President Obama for his or her role around repulsing a Sept. 9, 2009, episode within Afghanistan, sued BAE Systems with Monday. Meyer believed they was ridiculed and also defamed once providing concerns within a great e-mail on the feasible purchase belonging to the thermal optic scopes for you to Pakistan.

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