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Meanwhile, in Abu Dhabi...
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Models in full riot body armour and chemical survival suits waved cheerily for photographs, while one stall holder demonstrated a black breathing mask for use in a nuclear attack next to a tray of boiled sweets and a pot of free pens.

In the British pavilion, defence minister Gerald Howarth came under growing pressure to explain the UK's role in arming dictatorial regimes in the region after the government revoked licences to sell arms to Bahrain and Libya.

"Nothing to say today," Howarth told the Guardian as he waited -- fruitlessly as it turned out -- to greet Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, whose attention had been drawn to a handgun on a rival stand.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/21/abu-dhabi-arms-fair-idex-2011/print
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