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Selling Enemy - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 3rd Aug, 2006 - 8:50am
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Selling To The Enemy?
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| Saudi arms sales net 'billions' By Jim Wolf in Washington July 29, 2006 The Bush administration spelled out plans overnight to sell $US4.6 billion ($6 billion) of arms to moderate Arab states, including battle tanks worth as much as $US2.9 billion ($3.78 billion) to protect critical Saudi infrastructure. (snip) In the newly proposed sales to Arab states, UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter gunships worth up to $808 million ($1.05 billion) would go to the United Arab Emirates, while AH-64 Apache helicopters worth as much as $400 million ($521 million) would go to Saudi Arabia. Bahrain would also get Black Hawk helicopters, valued at up to $US252 million ($328 million). Jordan would get a potential $156 million in upgrades to 1000 of its M113A1 armoured personnel carriers. Javelin anti-tank missiles valued at up to $US48 million ($62.5 million) would go to Oman under the deals put forward by the Pentagon's Defence Security Cooperation Agency, which administers US government-to-government arms sales. The Saudi deal involves the sale of 58 older-generation US M1A1 Abrams tanks that would be modernised. Also, 315 Saudi-owned, newer-model, Abrams tanks would be improved with such things as air-conditioning and infrared sights for the commanders as well as the gunners. |
Does anyone else find this alarming? Yes, these "moderate" Arab states are our "friends," but doesn't anyone else see the potential here for disaster? I can just see all of that hardware pointed in OUR direction sometime soon....
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I'm sorry to say you are right. It wouldn't be the first time, although it worked out well once. We gave shoulder-fired missels to Afganistan and they got rid of the Soviet Union.
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