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US Congress doesn't object to the sale of weapons, helicopters and airplanes also, to Saudi Arabia

Washington, USA - It's the biggest contract of this kind signed by America ever

Green light to the more than 60 billion dollar contract for the sale of armaments by the United States to Saudi Arabia: it's ended on November 20th, the period of 30 days in which the US Congress could have objected on the agreement of sale to Riyadh of military supplies, the biggest in American history. On October 20, the Pentagon notified Congress had in fact notified the proposed sale to the...

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Rome, Italy, 11/23/2010 19:14
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