Arms Sales and the Hypocrisy of the West
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a report on Sunday that arms sales to the Middle East have grown by 87 percent over the past five years, with Saudi Arabia topping the list of buyers becoming the world’s largest arms importer.
Included at the top of the list of arms buyers included Egypt, Algeria and Iraq.
The institute measures the volume of deliveries of arms, not the dollar value of deals.
According to the report, arms sales to the Middle East now account for more than a third of the global trade.