*Israel to buy thousands of US smart bombs*

 From correspondents in Jerusalem

January 29, 2007 05:54pm
Article from: Agence France-Presse

ISRAEL intends to buy thousands of advanced "smart" bombs from the US
which the Jewish state first used during the Lebanon war.

According to the English-language Jerusalem Post newspaper, the Israeli
army will purchase $US100 million ($129 million) worth of Joint Direct
Attack Munitions (JDAM) - low-cost kits produced by Boeing that turn
free-fall bombs into guided "smart" munitions.

During last year's month-long war in Lebanon, Israel received an
emergency aerial shipment of the munitions from the United States, which
raised an international uproar after one of the cargo planes landed in
an airport in Scotland against safety and security regulations.