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Value of $ 14 billion arms deals between Baghdad and Washington and the last refused to stop supplying Iraq
09:23:17 / 01/2012
Khandan - sources confirmed that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has decided to proceed with the signing arms deals with Iraq and to provide, despite the objections of Congress.
The sources said in a telephone interview with the "morning": that "the Obama administration has rejected recommendations by members of Congress, mostly Republicans, according to stop supplying Iraq with modern weapons for fear of other parties by the arrival of Iraq, according to members of Congress."
Mr Obama said during his meeting with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Washington late last year, the United States will support Iraq's security and economically in accordance with the strategic framework agreement.
The sources added that "the arms deals that sealed the decision to hire them in the future may reach more than $ 14 billion over the next four years," noting that "the transaction will include fighter aircraft category F-16 aircraft and helicopters, tanks, armored vehicles and heavy guns advanced, in addition to air defense and radar. "
Revealed for security and defense committee in the House, on the arrival of all the spare weapons from Serbia in accordance with the contract concluded between the two countries, as an official source said in the statement of the "morning" recently: "The current trend is to diversify sources of arms," adding that "all mortars The bombs had been received from Serbia to be used by the Iraqi army, "pointing at the same time that" the artillery pieces that had been contracted with the same country will arrive within the next two months. "
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09:23:17 / 01/2012
Khandan - sources confirmed that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has decided to proceed with the signing arms deals with Iraq and to provide, despite the objections of Congress.
The sources said in a telephone interview with the "morning": that "the Obama administration has rejected recommendations by members of Congress, mostly Republicans, according to stop supplying Iraq with modern weapons for fear of other parties by the arrival of Iraq, according to members of Congress."
Mr Obama said during his meeting with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Washington late last year, the United States will support Iraq's security and economically in accordance with the strategic framework agreement.
The sources added that "the arms deals that sealed the decision to hire them in the future may reach more than $ 14 billion over the next four years," noting that "the transaction will include fighter aircraft category F-16 aircraft and helicopters, tanks, armored vehicles and heavy guns advanced, in addition to air defense and radar. "
Revealed for security and defense committee in the House, on the arrival of all the spare weapons from Serbia in accordance with the contract concluded between the two countries, as an official source said in the statement of the "morning" recently: "The current trend is to diversify sources of arms," adding that "all mortars The bombs had been received from Serbia to be used by the Iraqi army, "pointing at the same time that" the artillery pieces that had been contracted with the same country will arrive within the next two months. "
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