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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/12/world/middleeast/bahrain-us-arms-sales-to-resume.html
May 12, 2012
Bahrain: U.S. Arms Sales to Resume
By REUTERS [Bahrain] [Gulf States] [Arab Awakening] [Bahrain has presented the US with rather difficult exception] [Bahrain had calmed down some, or so I thought] [but this sectarian business and the to and fro between Bahrain and Iran continues] [this sort of escalation must worry US some?] [use psci 355-455] [followup] [US Fifth Fleet stationed there] [followup, April 30, 21] [seems a little too soon to me but the U.S. is quietly preparing to resume arms sales?] [cross in govt] [*]
The United States will resume some military sales to Bahrain despite human rights concerns after more than a year of protests against kingdom’s rulers, the State Department said Friday. The Obama administration notified Congress that certain sales would be allowed for Bahrain’s defense force, coast guard and national guard, although it would maintain a hold on TOW missiles and Humvees for now, the department said in a statement. [*]“We have made the decision to release additional items to Bahrain mindful of the fact that there are a number of serious unresolved human rights issues that the government of Bahrain needs to address,” the statement said.