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		<title>Man killed in bull run</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/07/10/man-killed-in-bull-run/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently a man has been killed in the running of the bulls in Pamplona. Alas, I&#8217;m struggling to dredge up any sympathy. You pays your money, you takes your chances&#8230;
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		<title>US, Israel &amp; Iran Negotiations Cartoon</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/07/09/us-israel-iran-negotiations-cartoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Cartoonist: Abdallah Jaber
Source: Al-Jazirah, Saudi Arabia, July 7, 2009
Hat tip- MEMRI
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		<title>BNP leader: &#8217;sink refugee boats&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/07/08/bnp-leader-sink-refugee-boats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The delightful indvidual that is Nick Girffin, the leader of Britain&#8217;s racist rightwing party, has said that refugees (ie. people, human beings) crossing the Mediterranean in boats ought to be sunk if they attempt to enter Europe. Though, to give Griffin his due, he very charitably said that we could &#8216;throw them a lifeboat&#8217; afterwards. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&blog=2536663&post=916&subd=thesinosaudiblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mona-Lisa in a Burka</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/07/08/mona-lisa-in-a-burka/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tribute to Sarkozy&#8217;s attack on the Islamic Burka.

Hat tip: (i.e. stolen from) this excellent blog on Kuwait with an unusual and welcome focus on human rights and migrant worker issues.
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		<title>Israeli sub went through the Suez Canal</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/07/07/israeli-sub-went-through-the-suez-canal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the best analysis that I&#8217;ve seen so far on the intriguing incident of one of Israel&#8217;s new Dolphin submarines going through the Suez Canal in Egypt. Here&#8217;s the crux:
The reason they were never sent through the canal before this, at least according to the conventional wisdom in defense circles, was that Israel did not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&blog=2536663&post=910&subd=thesinosaudiblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saudi to allow Israeli jets across its airspace?</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/07/07/saudi-to-allow-israeli-jets-across-its-airspace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports suggest that Saudi Arabia has tacitly agreed that Israel could use their airspace in any raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities. According to the Times of London, Mossad’s director Meir Dagan held talks with Saudi counterparts as long ago as 2002 over the matter. This is in addition to persistent rumors that senior Saudi officials [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&blog=2536663&post=908&subd=thesinosaudiblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First official Bahrain trip to Israel&#8230;nearly</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/07/05/first-official-bahrain-trip-to-israel-nearly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of Bahraini officials have made the first ever official visit to Israel, nearly. They landed at Tel Aviv International Airport and were met on the tarmac by Israeli officials who handed over several Bahraini citizens who had been intercepted by Israeli forces trying to break the blockade of supplies to Gaza. Although the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&blog=2536663&post=905&subd=thesinosaudiblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MEED: Qatar seeking to mitigate the worst of region&#8217;s unemployment</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/07/04/meed-qatar-seeking-to-mitigate-the-worst-of-regions-unemployment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) is the preeminent source of news and analysis on Middle East affairs. Its focus is by no means restricted to economic affairs. For anyone wanting to keep up to date with Middle Eastern affairs as a whole, and in particular those looking for harder to get reliable reporting on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&blog=2536663&post=903&subd=thesinosaudiblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dubai paper suspended for 20 days</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/07/03/dubai-paper-suspended-for-20-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A state controlled Dubai newspaper Al Emirate Al Youm has been ordered to suspend publication for 20 days by an Abu Dhabi court. The paper under the auspices of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed Al Maktoum published a front-page article back in 2006 suggesting that stables owned by the royal family of Abu Dhabi, the Al [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&blog=2536663&post=899&subd=thesinosaudiblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kuwait&#8217;s daily shame</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/07/02/kuwaits-daily-shame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Kuwait]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just returned to Kuwait for only the second time since I lived here some years ago. Alas, the papers are still full of despair-ridden stories of migrant workers in Kuwait. Page 6 alone of today&#8217;s Al Watan describes an Indian maid and two Philippine maids drinking Dettol, Colorx and various pesticides in attempts to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&blog=2536663&post=896&subd=thesinosaudiblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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