More US ears in Israel

By Ardeshir Ommani Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. if you are interested in contributing. At a cost of US$89 million to the American taxpayers, the US Senate, with no hesitation, passed a bill that was attached by Republican Senator Joe Kyle, to the federal defense budget to deploy another sophisticated long-range radar system to Israel.

What was the rush that the US military amid the country's financial and economic crisis had to speed up the deployment of a most powerful and therefore expensive system, called AN/TPY-2 forward-based X-band, a year earlier than it was scheduled previously? The X-band system, deployed to Israel on....
Tue Oct 2008 10:10 (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
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