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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7470421" data-attributes="member: 92282">Russia has signed  deals with Syria under which it will sell it warplanes, anti-tank  weapons and air defense systems, Itar-Tass news agency quoted a senior  Russian arms trader as saying on Friday.Mikhail Dmitriyev, head of the Federal Service  for Military-Technical Cooperation, said Russia would supply Syria with  MiG-29 fighters and truck-mounted Pantsir short-range surface-to-air  missiles and anti-aircraft artillery systems.He  did not specify the kind of anti-tank weapons.The arms deal is likely to be watched with  unease by Syria's regional foe Israel and its ally the United States  which imposed sanctions on Damascus for its support of militant groups  and corruption.Earlier this week,  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited Syria -- the first visit to  Damascus by a Moscow ruler since the 1917 Bolshevik revolution -- and  oversaw talks on Russia's possible assistance in building a nuclear  power plant in Syria.While in  Syria, Medvedev unnerved Israel by paying a visit to Khaled Meshaal, the  exiled leader of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.Israel's Foreign Ministry said it was  "deeply disappointed" that Medvedev met the leader of Hamas, which it  said was "a terror organization in every way."<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64D35S20100514" target="_blank">reuters</a></blockquote>

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