Seventeen U.S. Senators want Mi-17 deal for Afghanistan canceled

Seventeen U.S. senators have wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urging him to cancel a contract to buy 21 Mi-17 helicopters for the Afghan Air Force.

These lawmakers want the deal to be canceled as Rosoboronexport is supplying arms to Syria.

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