Meanwhile, the State Department announced last week approval of $476 million in new missile sales to the Emirates. It took many months to get the State Department to take much notice of the case at all. The State Department only engaged properly with the Eldarat family--after months of prevarication and stalling--when the U.S. media began to highlight the case. The Eldarats were disappeared into the UAE's secret detention complex run by the State Security Apparatus in August 2014. But the Obama Administration has shown little nerve to call out abuses by its allies in the region, even when Americans are involved.

Source: Huffington Post May 28, 2016 21:33 UTC