US Approved $40 Billion Private Arms Sales In 2009 -- SalonThe figure, which includes sales to Libya and Egypt, shows a $6 billion increase over the previous year.
The U.S. government approved $40 billion in worldwide private arms sales in 2009, including more than $7 billion to Mideast and North African nations that are struggling with political upheaval, according to newly released government figures.
From 2008 to 2009, the U.S. authorized increasing sales of military shipments to the now-toppled Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak and the embattled kingdom of Bahrain. But the U.S. reduced its defense sales approvals in 2009 to Moammar Gadhafi's Libyan government, which is now under a blanket weapons ban imposed last month by the Obama administration.
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My Comment: The $40 billion does not include direct US military aid to other countries. Throw in that number, and we then up with an amount that is truly colossal.
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