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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.
tags:
- Location
- Belgium
---

[Liege](/places/liege/) is a city in [Belgium](/places/belgium/). It served as a hand-over point for [U.S.](/places/united-states/) military matériel purchased from [NATO](/organizations/nato/) stocks in Europe by [Israel](/places/israel/). [Israeli](/places/israel/) chartered cargo planes would fly to [Liege](/places/liege/) to pick up the matériel, and then return to [Tel Aviv](/places/tel-aviv/) before transporting the weapons to [Iran](/places/iran/).[^1]

[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.