UAE tries 94 over alleged plot to seize power.

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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has ordered the trial of 94 people on charges of secretly plotting to take over the country and seize power.

"Their unannounced aims were to seize power and confronting the main principles which the rule is based on," state news agency WAM quoted the attorney general, Salem Saeed Kubaish, as saying on Sunday.

"They had plotted for that discreetly at secret meetings they held in their homes, farms and other places where they tried to conceal and hide what they were plotting from the concerned authorities."

The UAE last year rounded up about 60 people, many members of al-Islah, a group suspected of links to the Muslim Brotherhood which is banned in the country, according to a privately owned newspaper.

Al-Khaleej newspaper said in September the detained group had confessed to setting up a secret organisation with an armed wing with the aim of seizing power and establishing an Islamist state in the UAE.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/01/2013127181953441679.html

[Enthusiast]

1. Did the United States model their homeland security apparatus

after that of the UAE? One could no more successfully plot to seize power in the U.S. than they could there. Or was it the other way around? Chicken-egg.

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2. I was thinking Kremlin cum SS myself, but it could have been the emirates.