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Air Marshal Martin Sampson made the comment in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at an arms fair last week which was endorsed by Liz Truss \u2013 Britain\u2019s trade secretary and women\u2019s minister.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK displayed a warship at the arms fair despite British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab saying shortly beforehand there was \u201c<\/span>deeply troubling<\/span><\/a>\u201d evidence that women from the UAE\u2019s ruling family are under house arrest for trying to escape Dubai \u2013 a city state in the Emirates run by Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Sheikh Mohammed\u2019s grown-up daughters, Princess Latifa, claims she has been tortured and is being kept in a \u201cjail villa\u201d after an escape attempt failed in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her sister, Shamsa, was kidnapped, tranquilised and forcibly returned from England to Dubai in 2000 by Sheikh Mohammed\u2019s henchmen. She has not been seen in public since.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

English police confirmed last week they have received a letter from Princess Latifa asking them to reinvestigate her sister\u2019s abduction.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A previous police probe stopped after pressure from the Foreign Office, which wanted Britain to stay friendly with Dubai\u2019s billionaire ruler.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The comments by Sampson, whose formal title is Defence Senior Advisor to the Middle East and North Africa, suggest this strategy of appeasement is still in place.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He <\/span>said<\/span><\/a> at the arms fair: \u201cIf I was a young Emirati, I would be looking around here and I would be confident that the leadership here and in the region was doing things and presenting them with the opportunities to have a hugely exciting future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Air Marshal Sampson (right) sits in front of a portrait of Sheikh Mohammed at the arms fair. (Photo: MOD)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sampson said it was a \u201chuge pleasure\u201d to attend the \u201cfantastically impressive\u201d arms fair, known as IDEX, and he was \u201cextremely proud that UK industries and the United Kingdom is here\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MBDA, an arms firm part-owned by a British manufacturer, won a <\/span>contract<\/span><\/a> at IDEX to provide the Emirati air force with \u201ctechnical support\u201d worth \u00a35-million.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A friend of Latifa, human rights lawyer David Haigh, told <\/span>Declassified<\/span><\/i> that Britain\u2019s presence at the arms fair was \u201cappalling\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s countless human rights issues with the UAE, they are non-stop. Sheikh Mohammed is quite rightly seen as a pariah by the public and the press. The British government should be reconsidering its relationship with him in the light of what\u2019s happened \u2013 you\u2019ve got to draw a line somewhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UAE claims Princess Latifa is \u201cbeing cared for at home\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cruel customer<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Britain\u2019s government has approved arms sales worth \u00a31.1-billion to the UAE since 2011, when pro-democracy protests rocked the Gulf region.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emirati leaders responded to demands for reform by jailing political activists, bloggers and intellectuals, including an academic from Paris\u2019s Sorbonne University.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2015, the UAE has fought a war in Yemen where its forces are accused of running a network of torture chambers in which prisoners are \u201c<\/span>barbequed<\/span><\/a>\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A quarter of a million people have died from the Yemen conflict which has caused mass starvation and disease.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The destruction led new US President Joe Biden to say his administration would stop selling offensive weaponry to the UAE \u2013 but Britain refuses to follow suit.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UAE has also hired mercenaries to fight in the Libyan civil war on the side of a Russian-backed rebel warlord who is opposed by Britain and the United Nations \u2013 raising the prospect that British arms are being used against UK interests in north Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Declassified<\/span><\/i> recently <\/span>revealed<\/span><\/a> that Queen Elizabeth has met Sheikh Mohammed on at least 10 occasions since the 2011 \u201cArab Spring\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for the Department for International Trade said: \u201cThe UK\u2019s participation at IDEX was solely to promote defence partnerships between the UK and UAE, and boost defence ties across the Middle East and internationally.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sampson was asked for comment.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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