Posted on 07/27/2006 6:41:49 AM PDT by Esther Ruth
Jul. 27, 2006 14:46 | Updated Jul. 27, 2006 14:54 US bomb shipment stops at UK airport By NATHAN GUTTMAN AND JPOST STAFF
British Foreign Minister Margaret Becket criticized the United States on Thursday for failing to follow procedures for international arms shipments after a US plane carrying a shipment of "smart bombs" for Israel stopped for refueling at Scotland's Prestwick Airport, Sky News reported.
The foreign secretary said that it appeared that safety regulations had not been observed.
Becket said that she had "already let the US know that this is an issue that appears to be seriously at fault," and that she intended to lodge a formal protest after she met with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The US is rushing a delivery of "smart bombs" to Israel after Israel indicated it needed the bombs for its military campaign against the Hizbullah.
The New York Times reported Saturday that the decision to rush the shipment was reached after little debate within the administration. The "smart bombs" - bombs which are equipped with precision guidance devises, are part of an arms deal reached months ago between Israel and the US, but the fighting in Lebanon led Israel to ask for an expedited delivery of the bombs, before the agreed scheduled of supply.
According to the report, the US is stressing that the early shipment should not be seen as an emergency supply to help Israel, but rather as a change of schedule in a deal which was previously agreed upon.
An American - Islamic group - Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on the Bush administration to stop the deal, saying that the rush delivery at a time of war would be "unconscionable."
CAIR said the shipment would be "unconscionable?"
Gimme a break.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
Instead of using precision "smart bomb" to minimize civilian casualties, Israel should carpet bomb the entire area.
Way to go morons!
CAIR is a terrorist organisation and should be recognised as such. Margaret Beckwith is either an agent of Arabs or frightened to the point of appeasement . Brits with courage and good sense should rise up and tell this lady to sit her cowardly butt down and Shut up. I am sure that the most expedient way was being used to get these bombs toIsrael , but I am also sure there another way to get them there. pehaps we might help if we just delivered a few loads of bombs to Israel via Lebanon delivered by B-52's.
backup plan maybe :)
1. Religious Freedom does not permit teaching hate of another religion. That process is the result of religious conflicts in the rest of the world.
2. Islam's demonstrated intolerance, anti-American CAIR is CAIRless about the US ally, Israel.
3. How soon the UK forgets "lend lease" now that they are over run by Moslems.
4. Americans, Bush and the Jews in the US need to wake up that enough immigration is enough. We are going to destroy our culture, economy and country with unregulated immigration of people without a Western or First World culture.
Any time CAIR is howling, I feel good.
However the group was silent on Syria and Iran's replacement of unguided rockets that have been raining down on Haifa, a non-military target...full of noncombatants.
How soon do you forget we are still paying for those 50 old WW1 destroyers.
The missiles that killed four unarmed UN personal weren't all that 'smart'
I wonder how many of the "Lebanese" being allowed to enter the USA now are really terror cells.
Probably one of the "Cambridge" group (such as Philby, McLean, Burgess and Blunt) that betrayed Great Britain to the Communists during the Cold War.
Actually, I think it was very "smart" - what was dumb was Coffee Cake Annan's refusal to move his "personnel" (terrorist supporters) from the site.
BTW just want you to know the figures.There are about 60 million people living here only 2% are Muslim.
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