1. If the arms deal is the poison well of South African politics, then it's Mbeki who contaminated the water".

2. In December, Vietnam signed an arms deal with Russia that included six Kilo-class submarines, which would give Vietnam the most formidable submarine fleet in Southeast Asia.

3. New arms deal? They say they are instructing their negotiators to begin work on a new arms deal to replace the soon-to-expire Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which was signed in 1991.

4. Overhanging the controversy is the question of how much the government knew about the arms deal.

5. It has been alleged that the minister received a secret payoff from an arms dealer.

6. Senior members of Congress were briefed on the details of the arms deal./arms deal.html

7. Prosecutors said they were preparing to seize property and millions of dollars worth of alleged proceeds of arms dealing.

8. The French minister was accused of having taken bribes in the arms deal.

9. U.S. officials say the planes would get new avionics and equipment to put them on a par with new F-16's Pakistan is buying under an arms deal approved in 2006.

10. "Mbeki was chairperson of the subcommittee that made all the decisions on the arms deal, " says Feinstein.

11. They say they are instructing their negotiators to begin work on a new arms deal to replace the soon-to-expire Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which was signed in 1991.

12. Everything that's happened to Mbeki is a consequence of the arms deal.

13. De Lille blew the lid on corruption in South Africa's 1999 multibillion-dollar arms deal and was a witness in the case against Zuma.

14. There have long been reports, always denied by the ANC, that a chunk of cash from a huge arms deal in the 1990s found its way back into party coffers.

15. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, an arm of the Pentagon that oversees U.S. foreign military sales, must formally notify lawmakers of a potential arms deal.