Yup, I'm sure the PLO used that last gift of $60 million from Bush to pay for them too.
Oh, the story is much funnier than that. Those $60 million you mentioned were actually stolen to the cent by the PLO leadership, so the American conscience can be clear – none of the money went to the Ruskies. Then Abbas asked Putin to help his security services with the vehicles, and the retired KGB colonel of course agreed. Fraternity of the security services is a very big deal, isn’t it? But then the Elders of Zion (all of them are based in Russia, didn’t you know?) interfered, and made sure that the armoured vehicles ear marked for the Palis were manufactured on Monday, when the whole heroic working class of Russia has a mighty hangover. Thus there’s no hope for any of them to ever move from the Gaza port industrial park, except if yoked with oxen…