UAE goes shopping for US weapons

Despite the global economic crisis, the United Arab Emirates, a country of under a million people, is set to see its total defence spending for this year soar to over $7bn.

Al Jazeera’s Owen Fay reports on the reasons behind the tiny Gulf nation’s increased defence spending, which has seen it become the world’s third largest importer of American weapons.




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