U.S. Sold Bunker-Busting Bombs To Israel: Report

[Purveyor]

By Agence France-Presse
Friday, September 23rd, 2011 -- 1:37 pm

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama secretly authorized the sale of 55 powerful bunker-busting bombs to Israel, Newsweek magazine reported Friday.

Israel first asked to buy deep-penetrating GBU-28 bombs in 2005, but were rebuffed by then-president George W. Bush. At the time the Pentagon had frozen joint US-Israeli defense projects, fearful that Israel was transferring advanced military technology to China, Newsweek said.

However in 2007 Bush informed then-Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert that the bombs would be ready for delivery in 2009 or 2010, even though the Israelis wanted them immediately.

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[PDJane]

1. I wish that I were shocked.......

[Enthusiast]

9. Me too.........nt

[teddy51]

2. Isn't that special? If true, he (and The American people) will regret the results that this may

cause. I don't understand why the powers that be don't understand that a hit on Iran, will be like a hit on Russia. Russia is totally involved in Iran.

[saras]

4. They do understand. I don't understand why 'we' cling to denial about their motives and intentions

I think I won!

[Cali_Democrat]

3. And we wonder why people in the Muslim world hate us....

it ain't because our "freedoms" pissed them off.

[Kennah]

5. Expect a "system wide failure" in U.S. radar across the ME when the Israelis hit Iran

Might even be "friend fire incidents" where U.S. planes down Iraqi jets.

Probably will get blamed on Anonymous

[MADem]

6. Look out, Iran Nuke Program! Two interesting sentences in that piece

At the time the Pentagon had frozen joint US-Israeli defense projects, fearful that Israel was transferring advanced military technology to China, Newsweek said.

Newsweek, citing unnamed US and Israeli officials, said in its online edition that Israel has developed its own bunker-buster technology, but that it was cheaper to buy the US weapons.

[classysassy]

8. Cheaper means a free gift

Israel don't buy military hard ware from us we furnish them with three billion dollars a year(since 1948) and they can use part of that money to purchase weapons to kill poor children,women and men,shame on all of us for pretending we don't know what is happening in the middle east.If we protest against the cruelty of the Israelis we are called ant-semites

[no_hypocrisy]

7. In criminal law, this act would be deemed "facilitation" where you

provide the means for a crime to be committed. An example would be providing gasoline to a person whose known intention is arson. A bunker-busting bomb is not a weapon of defense.