The US Pentagon said Monday it plans to sell advanced bomb
delivery systems to Saudi Arabia, coinciding with US President
George W. Bush's arrival at the Gulf country.
The package, worth 123 million U.S. dollars, will provide Saudis
with 900 Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMs, which is a bomb
delivery system, it said.
The deal was made public as the Pentagon notified the Congress
about details of the sale.
The Congress will have 30 days to decide whether to approve the
plan.
Previously, the Pentagon has announced similar deals with other
Gulf Arab allies, including the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait
under an umbrella arms transfer plan called the Gulf Security
Dialogue.
(Xinhua News Agency January 15, 2008)
