Obama Secretly Pushes Arms Sale to Bahrain

by | Jan 28, 2012 | News | 3 comments

Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy:

President Barack Obama‘s administration has been delaying its planned $53 million arms sale to Bahrain due to human rights concerns and congressional opposition, but this week administration officials told several congressional offices that they will move forward with a new and different package of arms sales — without any formal notification to the public.

See here for some background U.S. support for the brutal Bahraini dictatorship.

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