The Bush administration expects to announce on Monday that it has notified U.S. lawmakers of its intention to go ahead with a controversial arms sale to Saudi Arabia, State Department and White House officials said.
The administration last year proposed supplying Gulf Arab states with some $20 billion in new weapons, including Boeing Co bomb guidance kits, in what officials have described as an effort to counter growing Iranian military clout. The bomb-guidance kits turn unguided bombs into precision munitions with built-in satellite and motion-sensor navigation systems.
http://www.reuters.com/article/polit...40435920080114
The administration last year proposed supplying Gulf Arab states with some $20 billion in new weapons, including Boeing Co bomb guidance kits, in what officials have described as an effort to counter growing Iranian military clout. The bomb-guidance kits turn unguided bombs into precision munitions with built-in satellite and motion-sensor navigation systems.
http://www.reuters.com/article/polit...40435920080114
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