I come home to see tens of you have sent me a version of this: "BAE Systems made regular payments of hundreds of millions of pounds to Prince Bandar bin Sultan for more than a decade. The payments were made with the full knowledge of the Ministry of Defence. Prince Bandar would not comment and BAE systems said they acted lawfully at all times. The MoD said information about the Al Yamamah deal was confidential. The Prince served for 20 years as Saudi ambassador to the US." (thanks to all)