Sons of Zayid: friends of Syria?

"Switzerland has said it is freezing arms exports to the UAE after a media report said a Swiss-made hand grenade originally shipped to the Emirates back in 2003 had been found in Syria.  The government took the decision after a Swiss newspaper published a picture of a hand grenade produced by Swiss weapons manufacturer RUAG which it said had been taken in the Syrian town of Marea last month even though Switzerland stopped arms exports to Syria in 1998."