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-- If you're in Israel, you might as well check out the latest in bulletproof vests and unmanned aerial vehicles. This week, the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor is holding Security Israel, which covers the latest in security equipment. It's a little different than tech trade shows. The exhibitors start serving beer at 11:00 and a lot of the attendees are in uniform. --
Because of access to American technology and financial support (over a Trillion $), Israel has become the third largest arms producer in the world, making more weapons than China, Britain or France. In fact, Israel produces 12% of the world's arms. And it sells to countries few other want to associate with: Apartheid-era South Africa (where it trained the notorious security forces and helped develop the regime's nuclear program), Mobutu's Zaire, Liberia under Charles Taylor, the Burmese generals, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Honduras and Guatemala under their military dictatorships, the corrupt and brutal regimes of Central Asia – and Rwanda, where it sold small arms to the Hutu before and during the genocide, then, without interruption, to the Tutsis immediately afterwards.
#1 - Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:15 PM EDTI wonder if Israel is also the proud producer of these weapons?
#2 - Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:04 PM EDTThey look like modified Soviet anti-tank mines. A Chechen speciality. Necessity is the mother of invention. Half of Ingushetia and the Uzbekistan,Kyrgyzstan border is full of these.
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