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From: Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@t...>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:34:38 +0100
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Lachlan Atcliffe wrote:

>I hate to pitch in on this one, but an Israeli friend of mine also
notes
>that "Sabra" is more normally connected with atrocities committed
during
>the war in Lebenon. In his words, it would be like calling a USN vessel
>"Vietnam".

I kinda doubt that this is a very wide-spread feeling in the IDF or the 
Israeli defence industry. If it were, they wouldn't have given that 
particular name to one of their M60 MBT upgrades...

http://idfmodelling.free.fr/sabra.html

Regards,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
-Hen3ry

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