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Article: European countries stymie IDF supply runs, miffed El Al pilots say. Planes only half-filled with military hardward because they cant refuel
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REBECCA ANNA STOIL
Jerusalem Post
09-05-2006
Headline: European countries stymie IDF supply runs, miffed El Al pilots say. Planes only half-filled with military hardward because they cant refuel
Byline: REBECCA ANNA STOIL
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 03
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 -- European countries have been refusing to allow planes carrying IDF supplies to refuel at their airports, according to the El Al Pilots Union.
Italy, Britain, Portugal, Spain and Germany refuse to allow El Al cargo planes transporting US military equipment to Israel to land and refuel, El Al Pilots Union chairman Itai Regev wrote in a letter sent Sunday to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
He said El Al's 747 ...