{"id":182230,"date":"2015-11-16T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/16\/so-we-are-selling-billions-of-weapons-to-the-founder-funder-of-isis\/"},"modified":"2015-11-16T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T02:12:00","slug":"so-we-are-selling-billions-of-weapons-to-the-founder-funder-of-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/16\/so-we-are-selling-billions-of-weapons-to-the-founder-funder-of-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"So, We are Selling Billions of Weapons to the Founder\/Funder of ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am referring, of course, to the House of Saud<\/a>, who just inked a major arms deal with them, so that they can better bomb women, children, and hospitals in Yemen:<\/p>\n

The US has cleared a sale of more than 10,000 advanced air-to-ground munitions for Saudi Arabia, a week after key allies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) raised concerns over dwindling supplies of weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n

If cleared by Congress, the sale, which could be worth up to $1.29 billion, would provide a wave of advanced munitions to a Saudi military that has been conducting airstrikes in Syria and Yemen for 13 months.<\/span><\/p>\n

The contractor for the weapons will be decided by competition, according to a notice posted on the website of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.<\/span>
Included in the potential sale are the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • 1,000 GBU-10 Paveway II laser guided bombs (LGBs).<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 2,300 BLU-117\/MK-84 2,000 pound general-purpose bombs.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 4,020 GBU-12 Paveway II LGBs.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 8,020 BLU-111\/MK-82 500 pound general-purpose bombs.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1,100 GBU-24 Paveway III LGBs.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1,500 BLU-109 2,000 pound penetrator warheads.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 400 GBU-31(V1) KMU-556 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) tail kits.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 1,000 GBU-31(V3) KMU-557 JDAM tail kits.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 3,000 GBU-38 KMU-572 JDAM tail kits.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 2,000 GBU-48 Enhanced Paveway II, dual-mode global positioning system (GPS)\/LGB with the MXU-667 Airfoil and the MAU-169L\/B computer control group (CCG) dual mode.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 2,000 BLU-110\/MK-83 1,000 pound general-purpose bombs.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 500 GBU-54 KMU-572 laser JDAM tail kits, dual-mode GPS\/LGB with the MXU-667 Airfoil and the MAU-169L\/B CCG dual mode.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 300 GBU-56 KMU 556 laser JDAM tail kits, dual-mode GPS\/LGB with the MXU-667 Airfoil and the MAU-169L\/B CCG dual mode.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • 10,200 FMU-152 fuzes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

    The news comes just days after the end of the Dubai Airshow, where concerns over the depletion of weapon caches among the GCC states was a major talking point \u2014 one acknowledged by US Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James in public comments.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

     Yeah, this is such a f%$#ing good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I am referring, of course, to the House of Saud, who just inked a major arms deal with them, so that they can better bomb women, children, and hospitals in Yemen: The US has cleared a sale of more than 10,000 advanced air-to-ground munitions for Saudi Arabia, a week after key allies in the Gulf …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,969,964,1031,1126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-evil","category-foreign-relations","category-house-of-saud","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}