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SAUDIS MAINTAIN F-15 SQUADRON IN TABOUK


TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Saudi Arabia has maintained a squadron of advanced F-15 fighter-jets in the northwestern city of Tabouk near the Israeli border.

Israeli officials said Saudi Arabia has ignored Israeli and U.S. appeals to remove the F-15S from the air force base in Tabouk. They said the deployment of the F-15S or other models of the F-15s in Tabouk marks a violation of an agreement by Riyad to the United States in 1978.

The Saudis bought the F-15 and there was a very clear agreement," Israeli Air Force commander Maj. Gen. Eliezer Shkeidy said. "When the Saudis bought it, it was agreed that the F-15 would not be in Tabouk. The fact is that there is a squadron of F-15s in Tabouk."

This was the first time Israel reported the number of F-15s in Tabouk. In September 2003, U.S. officials said Saudi Arabia had transferred about 50 F-15S aircraft, or two squadrons, to Tabouk, about 150 kilometers from the southern Israeli port of Eilat.

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