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JERUSALEM (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) has promised Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) by phone that he won't sign a contract to sell SA-18 surface-to-air missiles to Syria, the daily Haaretz reports.
The reported promise, said to have been made by Putin on Thursday, came on the day that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad begins a four-day official visit to Russia.
The paper said that Sharon had explained to the Russian leader that the arms, also called Igla missiles, risked falling into the hands of Syrian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon, who are violently opposed to Israel.
His office had said in a statement on Thursday that the Putin-Sharon phone call had centred on the situation in the Middle East, the unilateral Israeli plan of disengagement from the Gaza Strip (news - web sites), relations with Syria and Hezbollah "and their implications for terrorism" and the recent election of Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas.
"Hezbollah and Syria support terrorist action against Israeli targets, both from Lebanon and by Palestinian terrorist groups, and constitute a threat to the new Palestinian leadership," the statement said.
The Syrian leader arrives in Moscow on Monday amid controversy over reports that Russia was ready to sell Syria, its long-time ally in the Middle East, state-of-the-art missiles capable of hitting any target in the Jewish state.
No SS-18s for Syria...Vympel is sad...
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No SS-18s for Syria...Vympel is sad...
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"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
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"We won't sell them a single one!"*
*... but in the spirit of comradeship, we might give them a couple hundred
*... but in the spirit of comradeship, we might give them a couple hundred
[img=right]http://www.tallguyz.com/imagelib/chmeesig.jpg[/img]My guess might be excellent or it might be crummy, but
Mrs. Spade didn't raise any children dippy enough to
make guesses in front of a district attorney,
an assistant district attorney, and a stenographer.
Sam Spade, "The Maltese Falcon"
Operation Freedom Fry
Mrs. Spade didn't raise any children dippy enough to
make guesses in front of a district attorney,
an assistant district attorney, and a stenographer.
Sam Spade, "The Maltese Falcon"
Operation Freedom Fry
Russia doesn't do that anymore. Only during the days of the USSR did they give weapons to their clients on endless lines of credit: today, they never export weapons to anyone unless they get hard cash in return...... but in the spirit of comradeship, we might give them a couple hundred
HAB: Crew-Served Weapons Specialist
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"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." --J.S. Mill