{"id":4538,"date":"2011-12-29T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T22:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2011-12-29T15:30:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T22:30:53","slug":"us-arms-fascist-human-rights-abuser-in-bid-to-prop-up-domestic-failing-economy-and-vanishing-jobs-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4538","title":{"rendered":"US Arms Fascist Human Rights Abuser in bid to prop up domestic failing economy and vanishing jobs market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US to Sell F-15 Fighters to Saudi Arabia<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Karen Parrish (American Forces Press Service)<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, (MMD Newswire) Dec. 29, 2011 &#8212; The United States will sell 84 new F-15 fighter jets and upgrades for 70 existing aircraft to Saudi Arabia under a nearly $29.4 billion agreement, U.S. officials announced today.<\/p>\n<p>During a joint State Department and Defense Department briefing today, James N. Miller, principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy, and Andrew Shapiro, assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs, discussed the sale.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States is firmly committed to the security of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as we have been for nearly seven decades, and &#8230; more broadly, the United States and Saudi Arabia have a strong mutual interest in the security and stability of the Gulf,&#8221; Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>The F-15s Saudi Arabia will receive &#8220;will have the latest generation of computing power, radar technology, infrared sensors and electronic warfare systems,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This agreement reinforces the strong and enduring relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia,&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;It demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a strong Saudi defense capability as a key component to regional security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>State and DOD have worked to conclude the agreement since June 2010, Shapiro added.<\/p>\n<p>The White House earlier today released a statement detailing the Foreign Military Sales program agreement, which also will provide munitions, spare parts, training, maintenance and logistics support for the F-15s to the Royal Saudi Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>Source: U.S. Department of Defense<\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D4538&amp;text=US+Arms+Fascist+Human+Rights+Abuser+in+bid+to+prop+up+domestic+failing+economy+and+vanishing+jobs+market&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US to Sell F-15 Fighters to Saudi Arabia By Karen Parrish (American Forces Press Service) WASHINGTON, (MMD Newswire) Dec. 29, 2011 &#8212; The United States will sell 84 new F-15 fighter jets and upgrades for 70 existing aircraft to Saudi Arabia under a nearly $29.4 billion agreement, U.S. officials announced today. During a joint State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4538#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2264],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4539,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/4539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}