U.S. formally announces permission for Phalcon sale to India

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The United States officially announced Monday that
it is removing all opposition to Israel's sale of
the Phalcon airborne radar system to India.


A year-and-a-half ago, Israel
and India agreed to the deal,
and the Americans gave their
approval in principle. But in
early 2002, the U.S. asked
Israel to postpone the sale
because of rising tensions
between India and Pakistan.

State Department spokesman
Philip Reeker said the U.S. had

recently informed the two countries that it no
longer had any objections to the deal.

He said that in the past, the U.S. had refused
to okay the sale on the grounds that it was
wrong to sell such intelligence technology to
India given the tensions along its border with
Pakistan.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/328342.html

Strangly, I thought this sale had already been officially announced???