Posted on 05/05/2017 9:50:55 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Washington is working to push through contracts for tens of billions of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia, some new, others in the pipeline, ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's trip to the kingdom this month, people familiar with the talks told Reuters this week.
Saudi Arabia is Trump's first stop on his maiden international trip, a sign of his intent to reinforce ties with a top regional ally.
The United States has been the main supplier for most Saudi military needs, from F-15 fighter jets to command and control systems worth tens of billions of dollars in recent years. Trump has vowed to stimulate the U.S. economy by boosting manufacturing jobs.
Washington and Riyadh are eager to improve relations strained under President Barack Obama in part because of his championing of a nuclear deal with Saudi foe Iran.
Lockheed Martin Co (LMT.N) programs in the package include a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system with several batteries, the sources said. The THAAD system, like the one being made operational in South Korea, costs about $1 billion. Also being negotiated is a C2BMC software system for battle command and control and communications as well as a package of satellite capabilities, both provided by Lockheed.
Combat vehicles made by BAE Systems PLC (BAES.L), including the Bradley Fighting Vehicle and M109 artillery vehicle, are also under consideration as part of the Saudi package, people familiar with the talks said. Both vehicles are in the Saudi inventory. British defense company BAE has 29,000 employees in the United States.
The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the negotiations, which also include previously reported contracts or items under discussion for years. One such deal, an $11.5 billion package of four multi-mission surface combatant shi
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If you look behind the curtain, the Germans have isolated themselves on arms deals with Saudi Arabia...so a week ago...the Saudis just said ‘enough’...we won’t buy from you again. For German arms manufacturers....you might as well move out of Germany...maybe to the US, to build and sell the weapons specialize in.
Saudi Arabia needs only ONE WEAPON, a nuke to Mecca. Remove Islam from the face of the Earth.
This is what we need to do. Saudi Arabia and Iran will probably be in a war soon, and we need to stay out of it, except for arms sales.
This has been building up over a decade....with opposition parties in Germany continually criticizing military deals made (it’s not just Saudi Arabia). So over the past year or two with the events going into Yemen....the German pressure got greater.
The opposition kept wanting more investigations on how the weapons would be used, and whether human rights were harmed by the German weapons.
My guess is that several of the arms companies will look toward Poland or Czech, and locate there over the next couple of years.
Mistake. Every muslim on earth would seek revenge.
Nuke Medina with the warning that Mecca is next.
Be back bump
They are going to attack Iran themselves?
[Saudi Arabia and Iran]
5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
Ezekiel 38:13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
Sheba and Dedan - Saudi Arabia
Persia - Iran (of course)
An attack on Israel in the Latter Years
38:8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
Nope. Destroying Mecca destroys allah ... allah determines every thing down to the sub-atomic level and beyond. It cannot be destroyed, if that Islamic tenet is true, but if destroyed then it is a false god and Islam is over.
Many muslims said as much right after 911.
Payback for 911 is nuking Mecca during the haj with no warning. Nuking Medina is just to eradicate any remaining vestiges of Mohammad. Putting paid to the account, so to speak.
I guess Trump and Tillerson will have to make sure Cindy McCain gets on this right away:
Bunker-buster nuke directly into the Kaaba stone, from space. Vaporize it. Gee, who coulda done it? Mecca proper will be collateral damage. Make them swallow the fact that their moon god is inert.
The internationalist scum manipulators on top spent decades weaponizing Islam and assuming we would compromise, compromise some more, sacrifice our culture in the name of “getting along”, and ultimately submit, which is what Islam is about.
Islam is insane and dangerous and it cannot be talked down. It must be crushed. We have no choice if we mean to save our offspring and a Western culture as their inheritance.
Thier wish is the 7th century lets help them
Cernovich broke this story 2 weeks ago.
The problem I have with giving arms to Saudi Arabia is that they are funding and supporting the Islamic terrorists in Africa.
The Saudi’s are destroying Mecca themselves. See what the city looks like now. They are turning it into Meccaland.
There’s something about a glowing radioactive area there that seems more fitting than a amusement park ...
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