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Congress should not approve arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
"Thus far, the justification for the sale has not been made to me"
1/1/2008 5:55:25 PM
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The JDAM sale would be part of a combined $20 billion or so in fresh U.S. arms sales to Gulf Arab states described by Washington as a strategic drive to counter Iran's growing might. Rep. Anthony Weiner, a New York Democrat, said he and 35 other House members plan to introduce a measure aimed at blocking a JDAM sale "the minute Congress is officially notified." In the Senate, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden of Delaware, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, also has voiced qualms. "My committee's looking very closely into this," he told reporters in a Dec. 4 conference call. "Thus far, the justification for the sale has not been made to me." In July, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described planned U.S. sales to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman as a counter to "the negative influences" of al Qaeda and Hezbollah as well as the countries Syria and Iran.
Posted on 12/27/2007 1:22:30 PM by brianrApproved 1/1/2008 5:55 PM
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