Qatar, Bahrain duck congressional backlash against Gulf arms sales
As scrutiny grows over arms transfers to Washington’s Gulf allies, the Senate narrowly voted to allow weapons sales to Qatar and Bahrain.
Qatar and Bahrain today narrowly avoided the growing congressional backlash against US arms sales to the Gulf Arab states.
The Senate voted 57-42 against moving forward on a resolution blocking a $3 billion sale of 24 Apache attack helicopters to Qatar and 56-43 against a separate bid to stop a $750 million sale of air-to-air missiles for Bahrain.
