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tags:
  - Location
  - Belgium
category: "City"
summary: "Liege is a Belgian city that served as the European pickup point for Israeli-chartered cargo flights collecting U.S. military matériel purchased from NATO stocks for transshipment to Iran during the Iran-Contra arms deals."
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[[Liege]] is a city in [[Belgium]]. It served as a hand-over point for [[United States|U.S.]] military matériel purchased from [[NATO]] stocks in [[Europe]] by [[Israel]]. [[Israel|Israeli]] chartered cargo planes would fly to [[Liege]] to pick up the matériel, and then return to [[Tel Aviv]] before transporting the weapons to [[Iran]].[^1]

### Footnotes
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015).