(Own report) - The German Bundeswehr is intensifying its combat exercises with dictatorships on the Arabian Peninsular. The German Air Force just concluded, at the end of the year, two major training maneuvers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), each exercising joint combat operations. Participating alongside Emirati troops were also troops from Saudi Arabia, Qatar . . .

(Own report) - The CDU-affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) is promoting the expansion of German and EU cooperation with the dictatorships of the Arabian Peninsular. The foundation announced that its "Regional Program Gulf States" has initiated a project, along with other organizations from Europe and the Arabian Peninsular, aimed at proposing a more comprehensive cooperation . . .

(Own report) - In spite of the ongoing protests in the Arab countries, German companies are continuing to furnish repressive technology to regimes of the region. At a fair in Dubai, oriented toward Middle Eastern and African police forces and secret services, several German companies have displayed their newest technology in internet surveillance. Products for . . .

(Own report) - The German Development Ministry supports the rearmament policy of the countries of the Arabian Peninsular. The ministry is also using resources from the state's "development aid programs" for a giant underground drinking water reservoir in the United Arab Emirates. The reservoir will be especially protected against "foreign attack" and is intended to . . .

(Own report) - The German ThyssenKrupp Corporation is cooperating in the production of warships with the Abu Dhabi state enterprise and has buried plans for a common European shipbuilding company. ThyssenKrupp announced it would renounce on civilian ship production to concentrate its dockyards solely on arms production. It is entering a "strategic partnership" with the . . .

(Own report) - The German government has approved new weapons exports to areas of tension at the Persian Gulf. According to recent reports, Qatar will receive 36 "leopard 2" model tanks, while other states of the Arabian Peninsula can also be supplied with German weapons. Berlin is thereby reinforcing Iran's Arab rivals, to prevent Teheran . . .

(Own report) - Several weeks of joint military maneuvers with the German Air force and Iran's Arab rivals are drawing to a close. According to the Bundeswehr, the exercises included "complex tactical deployments" in the desert of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with the participation of fighter bomber pilots from Germany, the USA, France, the . . .

(Own report) - Berlin seeks to get Arab forces more involved in the occupation of Afghanistan. Just a few days ago, representatives from Germany and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) laid the cornerstone for a new police headquarters in Kabul. The foreign ministers of both countries also agreed to work together on the upgrading of . . .

(Own report) - The German military (Bundeswehr) has again begun the training of Iraqi soldiers. This time it is a logistics unit of the Iraqi armed forces that will first be trained on German territory and then in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The military equipment needed by the unit for its mission in Iraq, . . .

(Own report) - The German Railroad Corp.'s rise to a predominating position in European Rail traffic is encountering resistance in Great Britain. The director of the German Railroad, Hartmut Mehdorn, seeks to use the billions in proceeds generated by the forthcoming privatization of the enterprise, to buy up the rail companies in several EU countries. . . .

(Own report) - The German government is making new efforts toward the promotion of German business expansion in the Iraqi war theater despite the continuing danger of kidnapping. The Ministry of Economics was one of the supporters of this year's "Rebuild Iraq" Fair, which opened Monday, May 8, in the Jordanian capital, Amman. Diplomatic personnel . . .

Germany strengthens its position in the Persian Gulf. Several economic agreements, close cooperation with instruments of repression, media cooperation and exertion of influence in Iraq are the results of the German chancellor's journey to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Throughout the region great candor towards Berlin is noticeable simultaneously with increasing detachment from Washington and London. . . .