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IDF choppers in service of drug cartel

ynetnews.com — American officials demand Israel provide explanations for how U.S.-made choppers sold to Israel ended up in service of Columbian drug cartel. Incident may cloud relations between countries.

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  • USNavyBlue, on 04/27/2008, -5/+27With friends that that, who the hell needs enemies.
    • sfacets, on 04/28/2008, -9/+1With a username like that, who the hell needs friends?
  • AlwaysAwake, on 04/27/2008, -4/+24Just beezness as usual. Just to be fair, Dubya & Company are not alone. He's already on record with a half-assed endorsement of Hillary Clinton as an able leader. Bill Clinton has a lot of business connections in both Israel and Columbia. Just follow the money and paper trail. They can't yet conceal it all with verbal agreements and cash handshakes.
  • MarkusGarvey, on 04/27/2008, -5/+18what the hey...business is business....//s
  • Siegfriedson, on 04/27/2008, -4/+18The Israeli's have done the same thing with the Chinese, too:

    http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0509-07.htm
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jun/13/usa.is ...
  • PlagueOfMorons, on 04/27/2008, -7/+14I'll pre-empt the Brigade here by supplying their coming rationalizations (Not that they'll dare to post defenses, they'll just perform the usual gang drive-by diggdowns)
    1) "Oh, you are all fools. We lent the choppers to the Colombians to help us stop the Palestinian rocket attacks on Sderot. It's just taking them a long time to fly them back to Israel from South America." Insult, plus absurd fantasy logic
    2) "Oh, your Clinton did the same thing." Debate by deflection to an irrelevant justification
    3) "They're YOUR choppers not ours. We can hardly be responsible if you don't keep a better eye on them." Debate by mind on crack.
    4) "We have the right to defend ourselves anywhere, even from Palestinians terrorizing Israeli citizens in Colombia who are just there dealing in drugs." See: crack above
    • AhniTipesh, on 04/28/2008, -3/+1Shouldn't really compare this to Sderot... Not saying that drug trafficking is right or anything.
      • tekhna, on 04/28/2008, -0/+4Plague, you forgot the knee-jerk accusations of anti-Semitism.
  • PeppermintPig, on 04/28/2008, -4/+15Another day in the life of the elite, 'untouchable' drug runners.

    "Incident may cloud relations between countries."

    Cloud? More like smokescreen, which they use to make the whole affair vanish before the eyes of the media. Sure, those US officials will get right on the case... uhuh.

    lol
  • americangoy, on 04/28/2008, -4/+15Obviously everybody who DUGG this story is an anti semite.
    It cannot be true that after getting $5 billion per year from USA as "aid", Israel would turn around and laugh in the face of stupid Americans like that.

    Thinking like that is anti semitic!
    • freedomwv, on 04/28/2008, -2/+4Yes they would.
    • borez, on 04/28/2008, -1/+3"Thinking like that is anti semitic!"

      And if the same thing had happened in the UK it would have been anti-Christian?

      Really...Leave it out mate
    • neognostic, on 04/28/2008, -3/+3americangoy is a racist himself, check out his crack head website.
  • michael4lsu, on 04/28/2008, -4/+17Ron Paul is the only Presidential candidate who wants to end all of this UNCONSTITUTIONAL foreign "aid" to all foreign countries. If you didn't vote for Ron Paul, but the issue in this story bothers you, perhaps it's time to rethink what else you might have misunderstood about Ron Paul.
  • freedomwv, on 04/28/2008, -2/+5This is why you don`t sell your military stuff to anyone. All it will cause it people to abuse your tech. It makes us all look bad!
    • smacksaw, on 04/28/2008, -3/+2Now, whenever I hear things like "abuse your tech" I think about $cientology auditing.
  • zolthar, on 04/28/2008, -9/+3Israel was not caught as a renegade country trying to cheat the US, as some comments here glad to express.
    This article is published by Israel's biggest and most spread newspaper, It accuses specific groups who abused government contracts.
    Yes, the US gov has a right to be angry and make demands to change the rules in future deals with Israel, to prevent abuse by such companies, yet any comment here that tries to apply it to politics is politically driven, and has nothing to do with justice.
    • kemp34, on 04/28/2008, -1/+3Why should the U.S. taxpayer be forced to subsidize overseas militaries?
  • Barnolde, on 04/28/2008, -2/+5The war on drugs is such a ***** blatant farce, it'd be hilarious if it wasn't so damn sad. I'm sure artificially creating criminals will have no negative effects on the people, economy or justice system!

    Follow the money...
  • Flashman, on 04/28/2008, -3/+7"the copters ended up in Columbia, by way of Canadian mediators"

    BLAME CANADA.
    • zolthar, on 04/28/2008, -6/+2Yes but... there was that Jewish Zionist....guy or something, who was doing some... Jewish Zionist things.... according to extremely reliable sources!
      • Waiting2awake, on 04/28/2008, -2/+3I believe those sources are called history.
        • zolthar, on 04/28/2008, -3/+2That's what you call the result of mashing up half truths
      • HenryBored, on 04/28/2008, -3/+1Can you cite some of these?
  • Winston84, on 04/28/2008, -2/+9So what, the CIA lost 4 tons of cocaine when one of their rendition-flights
    crashed in the Yucatan, just 2 weeks after N900SA was seized with 5.5 tons aboard .
  • smacksaw, on 04/28/2008, -1/+3It's a shame so much of our economy and so many good jobs are built on selling arms because it would be nice if we didn't partake in arming other nations.
    • Waiting2awake, on 04/28/2008, -1/+5Sad when the people of Zimbabwe and other south African countries can show more humanity than so many of us in "the first world".

  • borez, on 04/28/2008, -1/+5Thanks for letting us launder all your money, here mate...have a couple of choppers as a gift.

    Can't wait to see how fast this gets dugg down.
  • aajjcckk, on 04/28/2008, -3/+6The CIA is behind much of the world's drug traffic. Yes, totally seriously. Yes, there is proof. No, I can't provide a weblink.
  • Harabeck, on 04/28/2008, -1/+1For the lazy, here is the type of chopper in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD_Helicopters_MD_500
  • PolishLogic, on 04/28/2008, -2/+2Oh no, 5 helicopters like the one from Magnum PI (and almost 40 years old) were negotiated to be sold by a third party and the sale was somehow they ended up in a drug cartel's hands.

    Big deal, when they're Apaches or Black Hawks then it becomes a story.
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