Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktum, ruler of Dubai and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates wrote a letter to President Bush asking that a slavery lawsuit filed in Miami be dismissed with support from the US Government.
It is well documented that since the 1970's tens of thousands of children, some as young as 2, were abducted from developing countries and sold into slavery to work as camel jockies in the UAE and it was only in 2005 that the government decided to return children back to their home countries.