Russia to supply missiles to Syria

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Source: Jerusalem Post

Russia to supply missiles to Syria
Dec. 26, 2008
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST

Russia plans to supply air-defense missile systems valued at $250 million to seven countries including Syria, Libya and Venezuela, Vedomosti reported, citing an unidentified Russian Technologies Corp official.

The Moscow-based newspaper reported that Russia had started fulfilling orders of 200 S-125 systems that were due to be delivered during the next three years.

Russia will ship about 70 missile systems to Egypt, and will also supply Myanmar, Vietnam and Turkmenistan with the systems, the paper said.

On Monday, US officials said that they wanted answers from Russia about whether it was selling advanced surface-to-air missiles to Iran.

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1. oh now that's interesting -- recommend.

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2. Glad to hear it. It's about time. Someone needs to put our military in check.

We think we are the only ones who can sell missiles to who ever we want. Someone else thinks they can too. Too bad we didn't stop our military from expanding into the Russians back yard. We've asked for it now. Fucking dumb asses putting missiles in Poland was just asking for a problem and now they got one and it's well deserved. We need to reign in our military. We should not be the world police anymore. At 700 billion a year, the military is going to bankrupt us and it's provoking terrorism.

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3. Rummy sees targets, lots and lots of pretty targets.... n/t