Red Commissar
7th March 2014, 22:14
A few days old but still:
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/apartheid-wall-arizona-israeli-company-contracted-build-us-mexico-border-fence
March 7, 2014 |
This week, the Israeli company Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that its subsidiary won a contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection to produce and install surveillance systems along the U.S.-Mexico border. The company is famous for providing "intrusion detection systems” and other infastructure support for the Israeli West Bank barrier.
The subsidiary was awarded a $145 million contract for a project called the Integrated Fixed Tower (IFT), which is to be built on the Mexico-Arizona border over the next year. The contract also guarantees eight years of infrastructure support from Elbit Systems.
The project outlines the construction of an undisclosed number of observation towers at the border by Nogales, Arizona, a town about an hour south of Tuscon. Additional towers could be built at five other areas along the state’s border.
Elbit Systems, founded in 1967, is the largest supplier of military technology, unmanned combat air vehicles (aka drones), and surveillance infrastructure to the Israeli military. Its attack drones, which the company’s website boasts (http://www.elbitsystems.com/elbitmain/uas) are “the backbone of the Israel Defense Forces UAS [unmanned aerial system] force,” have been used in lethal attacks on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
If the House passes the immigration bill currently sitting in Congress, the terms of the Elbit-CBP contract could expand to a $1 billion deal.
According to Homeland Security News Wire, Elbit also recommended (http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140306-cbp-awards-145-million-border-towers-contract-to-elbit) that the Department of Homeland Security "adopt a more complete border security system, which combines radar and electro-optical sensors, unattended ground sensors, unmanned air systems, and manned or unmanned ground vehicles to enhance agents’ flexibility and responsiveness.
For a more "respectable" news source here's Reuters reporting on the company's winning of the contract from the Department of Homeland Security.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/02/elbitsystems-arizona-contract-idUSL6N0LZ05O20140302
Elbit Systems is a large surveillance electronics company, and is a large contractor for the IDF to boot in Israel as well as providing equipment to other countries. It was responsible for installing many of the surveillance and sensor equipments in Israel's apartheid wall with the Palestinian West Bank which were designed to alert Israeli authorities to attempted breaches through the wall. I suppose its only fitting for US authorities to consult the same thugs to help make their own wall.
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/apartheid-wall-arizona-israeli-company-contracted-build-us-mexico-border-fence
March 7, 2014 |
This week, the Israeli company Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that its subsidiary won a contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection to produce and install surveillance systems along the U.S.-Mexico border. The company is famous for providing "intrusion detection systems” and other infastructure support for the Israeli West Bank barrier.
The subsidiary was awarded a $145 million contract for a project called the Integrated Fixed Tower (IFT), which is to be built on the Mexico-Arizona border over the next year. The contract also guarantees eight years of infrastructure support from Elbit Systems.
The project outlines the construction of an undisclosed number of observation towers at the border by Nogales, Arizona, a town about an hour south of Tuscon. Additional towers could be built at five other areas along the state’s border.
Elbit Systems, founded in 1967, is the largest supplier of military technology, unmanned combat air vehicles (aka drones), and surveillance infrastructure to the Israeli military. Its attack drones, which the company’s website boasts (http://www.elbitsystems.com/elbitmain/uas) are “the backbone of the Israel Defense Forces UAS [unmanned aerial system] force,” have been used in lethal attacks on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
If the House passes the immigration bill currently sitting in Congress, the terms of the Elbit-CBP contract could expand to a $1 billion deal.
According to Homeland Security News Wire, Elbit also recommended (http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140306-cbp-awards-145-million-border-towers-contract-to-elbit) that the Department of Homeland Security "adopt a more complete border security system, which combines radar and electro-optical sensors, unattended ground sensors, unmanned air systems, and manned or unmanned ground vehicles to enhance agents’ flexibility and responsiveness.
For a more "respectable" news source here's Reuters reporting on the company's winning of the contract from the Department of Homeland Security.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/02/elbitsystems-arizona-contract-idUSL6N0LZ05O20140302
Elbit Systems is a large surveillance electronics company, and is a large contractor for the IDF to boot in Israel as well as providing equipment to other countries. It was responsible for installing many of the surveillance and sensor equipments in Israel's apartheid wall with the Palestinian West Bank which were designed to alert Israeli authorities to attempted breaches through the wall. I suppose its only fitting for US authorities to consult the same thugs to help make their own wall.