US officers in Israel for military exercise: report

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http://www.france24.com/en/20121007-us-officers-israel-military-exercise-report

AFP - US army officers have begun arriving in Israel ahead of joint military manoeuvres between the countries' armed forces, an Israeli newspaper said on Sunday.

The officers will supervise the arrival of hundreds of US troops on October 14 for joint manoeuvres that will take place the following week and last for three weeks, according to Yediot Aharonot.

The US-Israeli exercises will be the most important yet between the two countries, the paper said.

Time magazine reported on September 1 that Washington had significantly reduced the number of its joint military exercises with Israel, probably because of disagreement between them over how best to deal with Iran's nuclear programme.

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1. happens all the time

there are mid-east exercises that go on year after year... nothing new. not even sure why this is a story other than the 'look over there at those people' aspect of it.

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2. and this year it has even been scaled back

funny how they never mention that...

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3. in the past, when my dad went to the mid-east

for these sorts of exercises, it was always reported in the French and German papers which units they were and where they were headed... even though it was top-secret and he couldn't even tell us what country(ies) he would be in. Always found that interesting...

sP