The US Pentagon said Monday it plans to sell advanced bomb delivery systems to Saudi Arabia, coinciding with US President George W. Bush's arrival at the Gulf country.

 

The package, worth 123 million U.S. dollars, will provide Saudis with 900 Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMs, which is a bomb delivery system, it said.

 

The deal was made public as the Pentagon notified the Congress about details of the sale.

 

The Congress will have 30 days to decide whether to approve the plan.

 

Previously, the Pentagon has announced similar deals with other Gulf Arab allies, including the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait under an umbrella arms transfer plan called the Gulf Security Dialogue.

 

(Xinhua News Agency January 15, 2008)