US to sell Arab states arms worth $5bn
Aljazeera.net
Saturday 29 July 2006, 5:45 Makka Time, 2:45 GMT
The US plans to sell arms worth $4.6 billion to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Oman.
The announcement came two weeks after the US said it would sell Israel its latest supply of JP-8 aviation fuel valued at up to $210 million to help Israeli warplanes "keep peace and security in the region".
In the newly proposed sale, battle tanks worth $2.9 billion will be sold to Saudi Arabia to protect their critical infrastructure.
AH-64 Apache helicopters worth $400 million would also go to Saudi Arabia.
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