11.   Competition to supply the power turbines also included contractors from France, Japan, Argentina, Ukraine and Russia.

12.   The government says his activities jeopardize Saudi contracts with British companies, including defense contractors.

13.   The Saudi offset programme, the biggest in the Middle East, currently includes contractors from France, Britain and the United States.

14.   The United States neither owns nor builds diesel electric ractors that have submitted proposals for the submarines or say whether they included foreign contractors.