As part of an international banking syndicate, ING has given a credit facility of up to $100 million to EADS, a European producer of nuclear weapons and cluster bombs, amongst other things. All of the above banks offer two investment funds on the Belgian market that invest in Singapore Technologies Engineering, a producer of anti-personnel mines.

Download the full report: Financial links between banks and the producers of controversial weapon systems. http://www.risq.org/modules/Upload/banking.pdf

Netwerk Vlaanderen http://www.netwerk-vlaanderen.be

Also, new at the website of the International Coalition of Uranium Weapons
(ICBUW):

Four new factsheets (by Lizzy Bloem) in the series From uranium in nature
to uranium weapons
http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=143

The Bijlmer crash or the cover-up of a chemical inferno (by Lizzy Bloem)
http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=140

Dossier 'Bijlmer Disaster' - Annotated links to web resources on the El Al
plane crash in Amsterdam, 1992.
http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=viewlink&cid=12

(in Dutch/Flemish) Belgen werden doodziek van vredesmissies in Kosovo
http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=141

For more information, please contact:

Maarten H.J. van den Berg
Board Member and Public Relations Officer
International Coalition of Uranium Weapons (ICBUW)
vandenberg@risq.org

Republished in conjunction with Review of International Social Questions (RISQ) http://www.risq.org

Poster courtesy of the World Uranium Weapons Conference http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de