Of course the 'truth' counts but there were no facts in the Times article to indicate any breach of the 2002 act - what happened in 2001 might have been as described but does not show that anything illegal happened.
My personal opinion is that there is probably a lot of dirt waiting to be dug up and what I saw in Saudi does not reassure me of the company's innocence.
However, rightly or wrongly, the SFO investigation has been stopped for political reasons and adding fuel to the fire for the OECD is not going to affect Bliar and Co but will adversely affect this country's reputation and could still cost us dearly in jobs and sales.
There are very good reasons right now for retaining those few 'friends' we have left in the Middle East and it must be important to maintain our relationship with the Saudi Royals if we are to stand any hope of dealing effectively with both Iran and Iraq.