• The UAE was one of three countries in the world to recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.


• According to George Tenet, the former Director of the CIA, members of the UAE royal family visited Osama Bin Laden in February 1999 (before 9/11), and their presence deterred an American attack on Bin Laden's compound.


• Two of the 9/11 hijackers were citizens of the UAE.


• According to the FBI, money was transferred to the 9/11 hijackers through the UAE banking system.


• After 9/11, the Treasury Department reported that the UAE was not cooperating in efforts to track down Osama Bin Laden's bank accounts.


• The UAE has been a key transfer point for illegal shipments of nuclear components to Iran, North Korea and Libya.


• According to the CIA, the UAE is a drug transshipment point for traffickers given its proximity to Southwest Asian drug producing countries.

Why would anyone what them to be running part of the national infrastructure?