Alpha Jets and the UAE

I keep reading that the UAE received Alphas.

Greg Goebbel’s excellent site says that: “The Luftwaffe began to phase out their Alpha Jet A machines in 1992, reserving 45 for lead-in fighter training. 50 were passed on to Portugal, with five of these used as spares hulks. The rest were gradually phased out, with the last leaving service in 1998. In 1999, 25 more were sold to Thailand to replace OV-10 Broncos in the border patrol role, while the British Defense Evaluation & Research Agency (DERA, now QinetiQ ) obtained 12 as chase planes, flight test platforms, and so on. Both the Thais and the British used five of their aircraft as spares hulks.

The Alpha Jets were sold at a rock-bottom price since they were soaking up funds simply sitting in mothballs, though Fairchild-Dornier got a contract worth $43 million USD to refurbish the machines and provide support to the end users. Apparently 32 more, including two spares hulks, were sold to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), though details are unclear, and three even ended up in private hands, to be used by the “Flying Bulls” flight demonstration team, which operates out of Austria and flies a range of classic aircraft.”

Anyone know anything?