Le département de la défense étatsunien vient d’autoriser un contrat de 641 millions de dollars pour la livraison de 1300 bombes à fragmentation à l’Arabie séoudite.
▻http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/08/23/2505681/cluster-bombs-saudi-arabia
The U.S. Department of Defense this week awarded a multi-million dollar contract to provide more than a thousand cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, despite a growing international pressure to halt their use.
Textron Defense Systems was on Tuesday granted a contract modification increasing the contract’s total worth to $641 million for the production of 1,300 cluster bomb units. More than half of that amount — $410 million — comes from foreign military sales (FMS) funds on the behalf of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Of that full amount, $230 million was awarded last year to “meet an urgent Saudi requirement for 328 units,” the Pentagon told ThinkProgress.
