RE: [OT] Question from the news

At 2:58 PM -0700 3/26/03, B Lin wrote:
>
>In SW Asia only US supplied allies use the TOW (Saudi-Arabia, 
>Kuwait).  Iran has almost 2000 due to Iran-Contra.

They also had a number of F-14s. Not that any one of them is flyable 
in combat form as they stopped receiving parts shipments way back 
when.

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