From: Jeff Shultz 

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:05:10 -0500, "Robert Bononno"
 wrote:

>Could be, but then the US has many "friends of
convenience"--including Saudi
Arabia. Iraq was such a "friend"--once.
>
>
True. How many people here remember that the Saudi's bought CSS-2 IRBM's
from the Chinese when the Chinese replaced them with CSS-5's?

I understand that keeping the Saudi's from firing them off back in '91 was
a major diplomatic/miltary success.

>Jeff Shultz  wrote in message
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>> On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 19:47:39 -0500, "Robert Bononno"
>>  wrote:
>>
>> >They are our "ally" after all, are they not? It was
part of a joint
exercise with the Spanish Navy. Someone got a bit overexcited, that's all.
The cement bags? Safety?
>> >
>> >Jeff Shultz  wrote in message
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>> >> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:19:44 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >They released the missiles for delivery.
>> >> >
>> >> And why were the missiles hidden in the first place? Oh yeah... the
>> >> Yemeni's said they weren't going to order any more stuff like that.
>> >>
>> I consider the Yemeni's to be a friend of mostly convenience... they
>> are a "friend" because they find that preferrable to
going the way of
>> the Taliban.

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