CNN news network has reported that the US State Department and Pentagon are sending teams to the UAE to investigate CNN’s findings that American-made weaponry has been transferred to rebel fighters and separatist militia in Yemen.
The State Department says the “continued insufficient responses” of both US allies have delayed the probe, which was launched in response to CNN reporting earlier this year.
CNN has published an investigation on last February. It found that American-made armored vehicles (known as Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, or MRAPs) which were sold to the UAE have been transferred — in violation of their agreements with Washington — to groups including al Qaeda-linked fighters, Iranian-backed rebels and separatist militias.
