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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20659759.htm US blocks Israeli arms sale to Venezuela -report 20 Oct 2005 20:55:22 GMT Source: Reuters JERUSALEM, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The United States has blocked a planned sale by Israel of technology to Venezuela to upgrade its fighter planes, Israeli television said on Thursday, marking the latest in several similar bans by Israel's biggest ally. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli Defence Ministry. The aviation equipment was to be installed in several U.S.-made F-16 planes used by Venezuela, whose President Hugo Chavez is an ally of Cuba's communist leader Fidel Casto and a vocal critic of the United States, Israel's Channel 1 said. The report did not specify the figures of the sale or what part of the warplanes were meant to be upgraded. Israel and Washington, which provides the Jewish state with $2 billion in annual defence aid, had made a deal in August to end a long-running dispute over Israeli exports of attack drones to China. No details of their agreement had been published. The United States torpedoed a multi-million dollar Israeli sale of airborne radar systems to China in 2000, saying it could upset the regional balance of power. Washington is also considering blocking the transfer of U.S. technology used in aircraft that Spain had planned to sell to Venezuela, Spain's ABC newspaper reported on Saturday. Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS
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