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To: pinochet
Intelligence is often a dirty job, and Israel is always looking for friends. But it seems more like Amin got tee'd at Israel when they wouldn't give him the weapons he wanted.
4 posted on 08/18/2003 4:29:17 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug
Intelligence is often a dirty job, and Israel is always looking for friends. But it seems more like Amin got tee'd at Israel when they wouldn't give him the weapons he wanted.

He got everything from small arms [there's a dandy photo of Bar-Lev and Amin playing with a silenced SMG together] to artillery and tanks. What did Amin want that Israel didn't deliver, aircraft?

Israel supplied a number of M4A1(76)W Shermans to Uganda. Both examples with VVSS and HVSS have been spotted in photographs. Apparently they were painted in a shade of green. Markings are unclear, but they seem to have had a two-colour rectangular marking on the left side of the final drive housing. The rectangle was split in two with a diagonal line from the lower left corner to the upper right corner. The upper triangle is green, the lower red. Registration numbers were situated in the same location as on Israeli Shermans, on the front of the final drive housing. They are white digits on a black background, one example seems to read "3/718".

6 posted on 08/18/2003 5:23:53 PM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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