Will NATO intervene in UAE?

"Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have detained two more activists advocating democratic reforms in the oil-rich nation where most political activity is banned, a lawyer has said.  The pair include Nasser bin Ghaith, one of the country's most outspoken academics, who is a financial analyst and an economics professor at the Abu Dhabi branch of Paris' Sorbonne university.   He was detained on Sunday in Dubai, according to Mohammed al-Mansouri, the lawyer and a fellow activist.  Bin Gaith has frequently criticised the Gulf region's rulers for refusing to consider all but the most limited of political reforms and for failing to provide a legal framework for the rapid economic development of the past decade.  The other activist, Fahad Salem al-Shehhy, was detained late Saturday in Ajman, another of the federation's emirates north of Dubai, al-Mansouri said.  Al-Shehhy has been participating in an online forum calling for free elections and other democratic reforms in the UAE, an alliance of seven emirates run by ruling families." (thanks Ali)