United Arab Emirates in the news again

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Turning over our ports to the UAE didn't pan out, so the Bush adminstration has decided that selling them arms is the next best thing. Why is it that news like this always comes out on Friday afternoon?

WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) - The Bush administration said Friday it was planning to sell the United Arab Emirates Black Hawk helicopter gunships valued at up to $808 million to protect UAE borders and U.S. and coalition "strategic facilities."

http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-07-28T175139Z_01_WAT006133_RTRIDST_0_ARMS-UAE-USA-URGENT.XML&special=true&view=CN

The reality is that this probably isn't all that big of a deal, based upon what we learned of the UAE during the port deal thing. After the political fallout of the ports deal, though, I'm stunned that anyone thought this would be a good idea.

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Re: United Arab Emirates in the news again

Stumbled upon a more complete story, regarding sales to a number of nations in the Mideast, here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060728/pl_nm/arms_saudi_usa_dc