Russia vows to sell cruise missiles to Syria

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2011/February/middleeast_February772.xml§ion=middleeast

(AFP)

26 February 2011,

MOSCOW - Russia announced on Saturday that it intended to fulfil its contract to supply Syria with cruise missiles despite the turmoil shaking the Arab world and Israel’s furious condemnation of the deal.

“The contract is in the implementation stage,” news agencies quoted Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov as saying.

Russia initially agreed to send a large shipment of anti-ship Yakhont cruise missiles to Syria in 2007 under the terms of a controversial deal that was only disclosed by Serdyukov in September 2010.

The revelation infuriated both Israel and the United States and there had been speculation that Russia would decide to tear up the contract amid the current turmoil plaguing north Africa and the Middle East.

[Arctic Dave]

1. The US and Israel?

Two of the biggest military hardwares whores on the planet have a problem with this? Go figure.

[azul]

2. Epicenter of conflict for the competition of the war profiteers?

Jerusalem, where fear and fury cast a mighty spell of unending war.


"I woke up this mornin' and none of the news was good
And death machines were rumblin' 'cross the ground where Jesus stood
And the man on my TV told me that it had always been that way
And there was nothin' anyone could do or say

And I almost listened to him
Yeah, I almost lost my mind "
-Steve Earle


(FWIW, posting songs my little attempt to balance the left brain's dominance here with some right brain activity, individually speaking, of course.)