June 29, 2007 (LPAC)--"BAE is none of Washington's business," trumpets a signed column in today's London Daily Telegraph , in a direct denial of what Lyndon LaRouche declared yesterday, that "the United States is not a British colony," and that "That ended with the Declaration of Independence in 1776."

Con Coughlin, a senior writer for the Daily Telegraph (also known as the Torygraph, because of its role as a mouthpiece for the Conservative Party), reflects the anger of certain circles in Britain who are not amused by the fact that BAE is now under criminal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. In a none-too-clever play on words, Coughlin tries to dismiss the investigation as being "motivated by jealousy over the vast profits that BAE and the Government have derived from the initial deal" -- in other words, that what the British billed as "the arms deal of the century" was obtained by Britain in 1985, only after the U.S. Congress blocked a sought-after U.S.-Saudi deal because of opposition from Israel and what Coughlin calls "the Jewish lobby in Congress."

"And there are suspicions," Coughlin continues, "that the Americans are trying to derail the latest arms agreement between Britain and Saudi Arabia - `Son of al-Yamamah.'"

Coughlin threatens the U.S. that it will be faced with anger and retaliation on the part of the Saudis, and it concludes, "Certainly, the attitude of both the British and Saudi governments is that whatever deals they may have done in the past, they are none of Washington's business."