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David D. Kirkpatrick and Eric Schmitt The New York Times 8/26/2014 CAIRO — Twice in the last seven days, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have secretly launched airstrikes against Islamist-allied militias battling for control of Tripoli, Libya, four senior American officials said, in a major escalation of a regional power struggle set off by […] August 25th, 2014 | Tags: Egypt, Libya, Militias, Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar, Safira Deborah, Tripoli, Turkey, United Arab Emirates | Category: Africa, Foreign Policy, Islam, Middle East, Military, terrorism | Comments are closed
Mike Ciandella CNS News 12/6/2012 Actor Matt Damon was surprised to learn his new anti-natural gas fracking movie was funded in part by Mideast oil nation the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Hydraulic fracking is a technique used to get natural gas out of the ground which could help make domestic natural gas a cheaper competitor […] December 8th, 2012 | Tags: "FrackNation", "Promised Land", conflict of interest, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Matt Damon, oil and gas drilling, Phelim McAleer, United Arab Emirates | Category: Energy, Environment, Hollywood, Middle East, Progressives | Comments are closed
James Risen, Mark Mazzetti and Michael S. Schmidt The New York Times 12/5/2012 The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the weapons over to Islamic militants, according to United States […] December 6th, 2012 | Tags: "Innocence of Muslims", al Qaeda, Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Ansar al-Sharia, Benghazi, gunrunning, Inspector General, jihadists, Libya, Mahmoud Jibril, Marc Turi, Muammar Gaddafi, Qatar, Sean Smith, Syria, United Arab Emirates, weapons | Category: Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Glenn Beck, Islam, Middle East, State Department | Comments are closed
Lachlan Markay The Foundry Heritage.org 9/28/2012 A new film starring Matt Damon presents American oil and natural gas producers as money-grubbing villains purportedly poisoning rural American towns. It is therefore of particular note that it is financed in part by the royal family of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates. The creators of Promised Land have […] September 28th, 2012 | Tags: "Promised Land", fracking, gasoline prices, hypocrisy, Image Media Abu Dhabi, Matt Damon, oil and gas drilling, OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), United Arab Emirates | Category: Barack Obama, Elections, Energy, Environment, Hollywood, Politics, Progressives | Comments are closed
WorldTribune 5/1/2012 President Barack Obama, in a move that could affect Middle East allies, has trimmed oversight by Congress of weapons exports. Congressional leaders said the Obama administration has reduced House and Senate oversight over proposed U.S. arms sales. They said the White House was virtually eliminating the consultation process with Congress before formally proposing […] May 2nd, 2012 | Tags: arms sales, defense contracts, Egypt, foreign aid, Iron Dome, Rep. Howard Berman, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sen. John Kerry, Sen. Richard Lugar, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, weapons exports | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Economy, Israel, Middle East, State Department, technology | Comments are closed
Katie Mulvaney The Providence Journal 4/6/2011 PROVIDENCE — A United Arab Emirates military officer attending the Naval War College in Newport is being accused of lying to a Filipino woman to persuade her to come to Rhode Island to care for his five children and clean his house and then failing to pay her. A […] April 6th, 2011 | Tags: Arif Mohamed Saeed Mohamed Al-Ali, human-trafficking, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Judge Lincoln D. Almond, Naval War College, Phillipines, United Arab Emirates | Category: Asia, Human Rights, Middle East, Military, Rhode Island | Comments are closed
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