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Article: Spain to purchase 100 armored vehicles for troops in Lebanon, Afghanistan

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June 23, 2008
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Spain to purchase 100 armored vehicles for troops in Lebanon, Afghanistan

MADRID, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Spain's Defense Ministry is to purchase 100 armored vehicles with 100 million euros (about 150 million U.S. dollars) to equip the country's peacekeepers in Lebanon and Afghanistan, the daily El Pais reported Monday.

The purchase is part of a program approved last November by the government to buy a total of 575 armored vehicles with 321 million euros (about 482 million dollars) before 2010, the report said.

It is also the first major military equipment purchase since Defense Minister Carme Chacon took her post, El Pais ...

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