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| Saudis Threaten Israel? |
| 2006-07-30 |
| Here's part of the statement put out by the official website of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (h/t, the Belmont Club): [THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA] WARNS ALL THAT IF THE PEACE OPTION IS REJECTED DUE TO THE ISRAELI ARROGANCE THEN ONLY THE WAR OPTION REMAINS AND NO ONE KNOWS THE REPERCUSSIONS BEFALLING THE REGION, INCLUDING WARS AND CONFLICT THAT WILL SPARE NO ONE INCLUDING THOSE WHOSE MILITARY POWER IS NOW TEMPTING THEM TO PLAY WITH FIRE. Meanwhile, the Pentagon indicated yesterday that it has new plans to sell billions in weaponry to the Saudis, among others in the region: The Defense Department reported that they have a plan to sell military hardware and worth up to $5 billion to certain Arab countries. ... The plan calls for a nearly $3 billion deal with Saudi Arabia, involving sales of 58 Abrams tanks and a [sic] upgrade of Saudi-owned Abrams tanks, as well as Apache helicopters worth $400 million, according to a statement released by the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency. Congress has 30 days to approve the sale once it is officially notified. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #17 I think that the Saudis are just putting out some puff pieces for fellow Arab consumption. They will get their a$$es handed to them if they mess around in this conflict. As far as selling them military equipment, hey, their money is usually good, so why not? It's the expats that keep things maintained. Things get hot, no more expats, nor maintenance, no more air force. Too many outsiders (infidels) know their air defense system, etc so their armed forces could be neutralized without too much extra effort. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-07-30 23:30 |
| #16 And an Abrams can't even take out an Abrams. A Hellfire shot would be equivilent to a paintball shot. Hellfires are capable of taking out any tank currently made including Abrams, they just don't produce a big bang when they go off usually. Its MAVERICKS that are overkill. |
| Posted by: Valentine 2006-07-30 22:22 |
| #15 Didn't someone once say that 95% of all the Saudi petrodollars come form a little strip of land 10K by 40K in size? The Saudi's should be careful or we will have a, very quick, war for oil. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-07-30 22:19 |
| #14 honkey: i wonder if the US vere thought about hiding secret auot distruct mechanisms in the palnes they sell other nations? which of course we could push at our desire There is such a mechanism. It's called native maintenance staff coupled with native machinery operators (pilots, tankers, et al). |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-07-30 21:58 |
| #13 Let's collect the money. it isn't like the soddies can actually fight. 58 Abrams is almost 2 armored batalions. BTW, can a Hellfire take out a Abrams? That's just a single battalion. And an Abrams can't even take out an Abrams. A Hellfire shot would be equivilent to a paintball shot. |
| Posted by: badanov 2006-07-30 21:30 |
| #12 Let's collect the money. it isn't like the soddies can actually fight. 58 Abrams is almost 2 armored batalions. BTW, can a Hellfire take out a Abrams? |
| Posted by: Brett 2006-07-30 20:58 |
| #11 The Sauds have been buying very large amounts of French weapons. Garlic only works on vampires.. |
| Posted by: Uleretch Cromong6523 2006-07-30 20:33 |
| #10 #4, For a moment there, I thought dot com was back.:) |
| Posted by: GK 2006-07-30 20:26 |
| #9 Why don't they just say what they have to say and be done with it. Has this statement been modified since news about Hezb'Allah probably causing the blast has come out? |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-07-30 20:18 |
| #8 The Sauds have been buying very large amounts of French weapons. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-07-30 20:17 |
| #7 i wonder if the US vere thought about hiding secret auot distruct mechanisms in the palnes they sell other nations? which of course we could push at our desire Insallah, it won't be necessary. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-07-30 19:56 |
| #6 90 km? Since when did we move the border west? I'm not complaining, I just feel out of the loop ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-07-30 19:53 |
| #5 i wonder if the US vere thought about hiding secret auot distruct mechanisms in the palnes they sell other nations? which of course we could push at our desire |
| Posted by: honkey 2006-07-30 19:31 |
| #4 I say nix the deal. I have my biases like anyone, in this case I'd say sell weapons only to Israel and the current offical gov. in Iraq. With Iraq I wouldn't sell them anything that could be used outside their own borders. IE no long range stuff. |
| Posted by: RJB in JC MO 2006-07-30 19:30 |
| #3 I was thinking it's a smart move by the administration. They get the Soddies to pay for top gear, who then store it on their bases, and then when we do decide to setup the Republic of Eastern Arabia with the 90km corridor, there's a whole load of state of the art bang-bang just waiting to be used ;) |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2006-07-30 19:29 |
| #2 Selling modern, high tech military equipment to SA is like selling supercomputers to monkeys. It's only a threat if they resell to someone who can use it. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2006-07-30 19:16 |
| #1 wonder if these oil whores have actually thought this out? If their fundes are frozen? They'd just be sweaty unbathen homeless assholes without a job or skill to earn their way home....doubt that many smelly hitchhikers would get rides... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-07-30 19:15 |