French jet “yesterday’s technology”
According to one US embassy document in a trove leaked by the whistleblower website Wikileaks, King Hamad of Bahrain called France’s frontline fighter jet “yesterday’s technology”.
On Wednesday, Bahrain officially denied the comments. A foreign ministry spokesman called them “inaccurate and taken out of context,” as reported by the Bahrain News Agency.
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The relevant US diplomatic cable is classified “secret//noforn”, meaning that non-US nationals should not have access to it. It contains the minutes of a Nov 1, 2009 meeting between King Hamad and US General David Petraeus in Manama.
The last point in the document concerns the inaugural Bahrain Air Show in January 2010. It states, “King Hamad asked General Petraeus for his help in encouraging U.S. aircraft manufacturers to participate in the inaugural Bahrain Air Show, scheduled for January 2010. He said that France was pushing the Rafale and would be there in force, although he agreed with Petraeus that the French fighter was yesterday’s technology.”
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