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US seals $3.48B missiles, technology sale to UAE
Wary of Iran, the U.S. has been building up missile defenses of its allies, including a $1.7 billion deal to upgrade Saudi Arabia's Patriot missiles and the sale of 209 Patriot missiles to Kuwait, valued at about $900 million.
Tags: United Arab Emirates , DoD , Lockheed Martin , missiles , THAAD , Boeing , technology
US finalizes deal to sell F-15s to Saudi Arabia
Tags: DoD , F-15 , Congress , Barack Obama , industry
WikiLeaks reveal marketing as part of diplomacy
The New York Times reports on U.S. diplomats' efforts to market U.S. items, such as jets, to foreign countries, revealed by the WikiLeaks cables.
Tags: DoD Report , WikiLeaks , State , diplomacy , marketing , cables , secrecy , transparency , Turkey , NASA , Dorobek Insider
Yemen a difficult test case for democracy
Juan Zarate, national security analyst for CBS News
Tags: Yemen , Juan Zarate , CBS News ,
Deal for Yemeni president to step down unlikely to hold
James Traub, columnist for ForeignPolicy.com and contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine
Tags: James Traub , Foreign Policy , ForeignPolicy.com , New York Times magazine , Yemen , Ali Abdullah Saleh , Gulf Cooperation Council ,
Saudi protests may cause oil prices to spike
Marc Ginsberg, former presidential adviser and U.S. ambassador to Morocco who is currently senior vice president of APCO Worldwide
Tags: Marc Ginsberg , APCO Worldwide , oil prices , OPEC , Morocco
Pentagon pushing to send weapons to Middle East
As a plan to offset Iran's alleged nuclear program, the Pentagon is pressing ahead with a plan to send 60 billion dollars in weapons to Saudi Arabia. The Associated Press says the plan has been in the works for months and the U.S. is actually shifting it defense policies in the region to send a message to Iran. U.S. and foreign sources say Iran could soon have enough enriched uranium to build at least one nuclear weapon. Iran claims its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
Tags: Pentagon & Beyond , Pentagon , Middle East , Iran , J.J. Green
