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Egypt biggest arms buyer in Middle East
Egypt has become the developing world's third largest buyer of weapons over the last four years, according to a leading US official research service.
According to the annual report issued by the Congressional Research Service, a division of the Library of Congress, only China and India recorded more arms transfer agreements, thus making Egypt the principal arms buyer in the Middle East.
The report issued last week in Washington said Egypt recorded $6.5 billion worth of weapons purchases from 2001 to 2004. Israel bought $4.4b. during the same period and Saudi Arabia recorded $3.8b.
For Egypt, which receives $1.3b. in annual US military grants, most of its weapons were purchased from the United States ($5.6b.). Most of this has been for military platforms and weapons, including advanced attack helicopters and fast missile vessels.
The report, entitled "Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations," said Egypt outspent the traditional heavy buyers of Saudi Arabia, Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
The main reason for the heavy Egyptian arms purchases is its ambitious modernization program.
"This is worrisome and something that should be addressed," said Hillel Frisch, a senior researcher and expert on the Egyptian military at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.
Frisch said that the arms purchases added up to over a $1b. more than the amount of military grants Cairo received from Washington.
"This is surprising since it comes at a time when the long-term Egypt economy has been in decline. It is clearly that Egypt doesn't have any other enemies [than Israel]. It might have a problem with an atomic Iran, but a conventional system isn't going to have much of an impact there," Frisch said.
"The worse thing about all of this is what are they amassing all this kind of weapons for?........
Weren't they caught smuggling arms through tunnels to the PA??
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Egypt biggest arms buyer in Middle East
Egypt has become the developing world's third largest buyer of weapons over the last four years, according to a leading US official research service.
According to the annual report issued by the Congressional Research Service, a division of the Library of Congress, only China and India recorded more arms transfer agreements, thus making Egypt the principal arms buyer in the Middle East.
The report issued last week in Washington said Egypt recorded $6.5 billion worth of weapons purchases from 2001 to 2004. Israel bought $4.4b. during the same period and Saudi Arabia recorded $3.8b.
For Egypt, which receives $1.3b. in annual US military grants, most of its weapons were purchased from the United States ($5.6b.). Most of this has been for military platforms and weapons, including advanced attack helicopters and fast missile vessels.
The report, entitled "Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations," said Egypt outspent the traditional heavy buyers of Saudi Arabia, Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
The main reason for the heavy Egyptian arms purchases is its ambitious modernization program.
"This is worrisome and something that should be addressed," said Hillel Frisch, a senior researcher and expert on the Egyptian military at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.
Frisch said that the arms purchases added up to over a $1b. more than the amount of military grants Cairo received from Washington.
"This is surprising since it comes at a time when the long-term Egypt economy has been in decline. It is clearly that Egypt doesn't have any other enemies [than Israel]. It might have a problem with an atomic Iran, but a conventional system isn't going to have much of an impact there," Frisch said.
"The worse thing about all of this is what are they amassing all this kind of weapons for?........
Weren't they caught smuggling arms through tunnels to the PA??
Full story at above URL
and egypt is desolate after that.......... egypt only goes to war one time....... they are kaput years before armageddon ( 
inho) otherwise the Gog war has to be 
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