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 Sunday March 30, 2003 14:06 by newshound
 Jerusalem - Early in the American invasion of Iraq, amid one of the air assaults, an unmanned aircraft meant to confuse enemy radar fell to the ground in Baghdad. In the wreckage, Iraqis discovered a fragment marked with the manufacturer's signature and origin - "Taas Jerusalem" - a taunting declaration, as if fired from the Jewish state itself. Jerusalem - Early in the American invasion of Iraq, amid one of the air assaults, an unmanned aircraft meant to confuse enemy radar fell to the ground in Baghdad. In the wreckage, Iraqis discovered a fragment marked with the manufacturer's signature and origin - "Taas Jerusalem" - a taunting declaration, as if fired from the Jewish state itself. "We found a missile that had fallen in southern Baghdad," Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri announced. "The missile did not explode and God be praised, it exposed Zionism's part in the aggression." Despite vigorous U.S. attempts to keep Israel on the sidelines of the war, at turn after turn, it seems the country is cropping up in the unfolding campaign. From the renewed peace process supposed to arrive after the war to U.S. protection from Scud attacks to battlefield technology it supplies to America, Israel is in fact much closer to the action than the official Western line suggests. As one of the world's top arms exporters, the country has sold the United States an array of equipment that is either being used or could be employed in Iraq. It has supplied the American military with sophisticated decoys, such as the one found Saturday, as well as precision air-to-surface missiles on B-52 bombers, high-tech targeting systems, and onboard computers and armor for the Bradley fighting vehicles rolling across the Iraqi desert, according to military experts and analyses of Israeli arms sales. It also has designed and manufactured a host of other components that permeate the U.S. arsenal. And while Israel is not at the spearhead, its military contribution provides yet more fuel for Arab convictions that the Jewish state is behind the aggression. "The perception is that there is no difference between the U.S. and Israel," said Mustafa Al-Sayyid, a political scientist at American University in Cairo. He said that while most people in the region don't believe the United States depends on Israel for its military machinery, they regard the two countries as in lockstep. "And the more this war continues, hostility to the U.S. and Israel will increase," he said. Israeli arms specialists point out that, overall, the U.S. use of the country's technology is minimal, mostly confined to niche items. They say the relationship is being manipulated and exaggerated, but acknowledge that any use of Israeli equipment against an Arab adversary is incendiary. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6Man who would be ‘king’ of Iraq: The Observer, 30th of March. http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,925325,00.html
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0.6903.925325.00.html
Why is it news, as there are many other countries who supply the US with weapons?There has already been a thread on this exact same topic, anyway.
Instead of moping about here Avi, you should go and do your duty and shoot a few Israeli strikers ....
For someone who is so gung-ho about this war you seem to be a little averse to matching your big words with deeds ... why aren't YOU off to the front line to help liberate all those poor Iraqis ?
Maybe you are really a bit of a shirker who just likes shooting his mouth off ?
It is news because many people cannot see the invisible elepahnt ....
http://tinyurl.com/8gsx
Israel has been guilty over the years of supplying weapons to a wide variety of repressive and almost exclusively right-wing regiemes all over the world in violation of sanctions and moral standards.
Such regiemes include China, Iran, Chile, South Africa, Colombia and Turkey to name but a few.
Zionists like Avi of course will always point out the human rights records of countries such as Iraq when it suits them, but are equally prepared to ignore them when they can earn money by dealing with a dictator elsewhere.
Saying that components from Taiwan and elsewhere are just as likely to turn up in weapons is a red-herring.
Many electronics components such as memories or microprocessors have a multitude of uses and are not expressly designed for military use.
There is a huge difference between a collection of thousands of components and the complete weapons system itself.
To say otherwise is to attempt to conceal the truth.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Global_Secrets_Lies/Israel_SAfrica.html
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2003_03/israelexports_mar03.asp