U.S. Blocks Bomb Shipments to Saudi Arabia

[applegrove]

U.S. Blocks Bomb Shipments to Saudi Arabia

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/05/27/u-s-ends-bomb-transfer-to-saudi-arabia.html

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The White House has put a block on shipments of cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, Foreign Policy reports. The move follows intense criticism of the U.S.'s support for Saudi Arabia's bombings against Shiite forces in Yemen. The Saudi cluster bombing campaign has targeted "areas in which civilians are alleged to have been present or in the vicinity," a U.S. official told Foreign Policy of their reasons for blocking bomb transfers.



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[floriduck]

1. It's about time our leaders pulled their heads out. Hillary never should have agreed to give them

weapons.

[leveymg]

2. Does anyone have info on whether the US also exported fuel-air explosives to KSA used in Yemen?

Those things create enormous blasts that rival tactical nuclear weapons in their explosive power inside their blast radius. They have been frequently used as mass terror weapons, dropped near Yemeni towns and cities by Saudi aircraft and missiles.

[tirebiter]

3. Hold on wait a minute

Selling arms to Saudi Arabia long predates either Clinton.

[rhett o rick]

4. Yikes another brand new Clinton supporter.

CeeYaa

[bahrbearian]

5. I wonder if that cuts into the Clinton Foundations bottom line.