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Should Syria be the next target for US war on terror? Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr., tells UPI that Syria's "footprints" are much clearer than Iraq's.

US Giving Israel $28M To Fight Terror: The Jerusalem Post (Jan. 8) reports that "The US is giving Israel" $28M to buy "counter terrorism equipment, primarily robots that perform controlled explosions on suspected bombs." The money "was found in the" '01 "Pentagon budget" and is "currently being transferred" to the State Dept., from which "it will be awarded to Israel." A US official: "The Israelis suffered a horrendous amount of bombings over the past several months. The US has helped out with some equipment to save lives in the past. Much of that equipment has been damaged or destroyed, so a request was made to see if we could come up with the money to replace the damaged equipment and we did."

posted by Howard @ 1/09/2002 11:30:53 AM