Thread: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Old 10-04-2012, 09:28   #568
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Re: Falkland Islands: Tensions Rising
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Britain is demanding that Argentina repays £45 million in loans that were used to pay for the invasion of the Falkland Islands.
The Department of Business is taking a tough line with the government in Buenos Aires as tensions flare around the 30th anniversary of the war.
The money was loaned to the Argentine junta in 1979 and was used to buy military equipment which was used to seize the South Atlantic outposts three years later.


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Originally Posted by yesman View Post
That is what I call a long term loan
Anyway, it should stir things up a bit.
That's just quality

We lend them money, and sell them arms, for them to use to attack us.

I wonder how much interest there is to pay on that?
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