US approves $1.29bn sale of bombs to Saudi Arabia

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: AFP

Washington (AFP) - The US government has approved a request from Saudi Arabia to buy more than 19,000 bombs and smart bombs for its air force, the State Department said Monday.

Congress will have to green light the deal, but the $1.29 billion dollar sale is likely to go through, with Saudi jets in action against rebel forces in Yemen.

The Saudi-led operation against the Huthi militia in Yemen has proved controversial, amid frequent reports of civilian casualties on the ground.

But Washington has stood by its ally, which is also a key player in the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State jihadist group further north in Iraq and Syria.

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[WDIM]

1. Disgusting war profiteers selling their machines of death. nt

[Demeter]

2. Why? So the Saudis Can Give Them to ISIS?

Cut the umbilical and you cut the terrorism. House of Saud has got to get off the US dole.

[forest444]

3. The 800-pound gorilla.

Everyone knows ISIS grew as much and as fast as they did thanks to Saudi covert aid (with a wink and a nod from our own neocon criminals) - but no one will do or even say anything about it because oil. Always the oil.

'The Devil's excrement', as Nigerians call it.

[EX500rider]

5. Unlikely as Isis had no air force to use them.

[IcyPeas]

4. business as usual with our "ally" the Saudis /nt