Subject: Arab countries are the world's leading weapons market!
Assalaamu alaykum
The worst thing is that all these money is not spent in the way of Allah to protect the Ummah in Kashmir, Palestine, Chechnya etc. It is just money being thrown away by our puppet rulers to prop up the economies of their western masters!
Can you imagine, Arab countries spent US$44 billion on arms in 1998 yet cannot get rid of the illegitimate state of Israel, OR IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT TO???
Arab countries are the world's leading weapons market
Wednesday, March 29, 2000 11:14 PM EST
Marrakech (North Africa Journal, March 29, 2000) - According to the
International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Arab countries are the
world's leading weapons market, both in absolute terms and as a percent of
gross domestic product.
According to the United Nations, expenditures by Arab countries on basic
services such as health care and education have !
been minimal, with Jordan
on top, spending 3.7 percent of its GDP on these sectors in 1998.
Military expenditure in the Arab countries increased by 9.1 percent in
1998, to $44.4 billion from $40.7 billion in 1997. Total defense
expenditure constituted 7.4 percent of GDP, well above the world average
military expenditure of 2.4 percent of GDP.
The share of military spending to Gross Domestic Product in Egypt was 4%.
Military expenditure in 1998 increased for the North African countries by
13 percent on the level in 1997 and amounted to $5.8 billion, with Algeria
's share at about 40 percent. The group's average defense expenditure as a
share of GDP (3.9 percent) is the lowest in the Middle East- North Africa
region.
The 1999 defense budgets for the North African countries decreased
marginally, by about 1 percent. Algeria 's 1999 defense budget showed a
decrease of 5 percent, while Libya maintained its previous level.!
Morocco
and Tunisia's defense budgetary allocations grew last year by 2 percent
and 3 percent, respectively.
The perpetual trend of high military spending among the Arab countries has
caused an immense imbalance in the use and allocation of resources away
from health care and education, which are well below world averages for
most countries of the region.
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