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		<title>Iran&#8217;s oil exports map</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/01/15/irans-oil-exports-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quick and easy map from CNN showing where Iran sends its oil. I&#8217;d be more impressed, though, if it showed what percentage of oil Iran&#8217;s sales made in the countries in question. Hat tip: ScottLucasUK &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5988&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KSA and the Iranian Scientists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of times recently I&#8217;ve been somewhat annoyed with myself for not thinking outside the box. Last night at a lecture by James Piscatori, he quoted someone coining the phrase &#8216;internal sovereignty&#8217; referring to the place of Islam in society in much of the Middle East. What a wonderful phrase. But why didn&#8217;t I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5979&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s naval defences scuppered by mussels</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/01/11/canadas-naval-defences-scuppered-by-muscles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A floating fence designed to protect Canada&#8217;s navy ships has been scuppered by mussels and barnacles anchoring to the barrier and weighing it down. My instant thought is that if this occurred in Egypt, we&#8217;d all be smirking at the press lambasting the latest perfidious action of the Israelis with their remote controlled sea food [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5973&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The FT guff awards</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/01/09/the-ft-guff-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Financial Times. The 2011 winners&#8230; Sound and Fury Cup &#8211; &#8216;awarded each year to the chief executive who makes a public pronouncement signifying nothing.&#8217; The runaway winner is Cisco’s John Chambers&#8230;&#8221;We will accelerate our leadership across our five priorities and compete to win in the core.” Worst euphemism for firing people. This goes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5966&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KSA to test its international students for alcohol on their return?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alcohol in Saudi Arabia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Likely striving for attention, a Saudi preacher has called for KSA students studying abroad to be tested for drugs and alcohol in their system on their return to the Kingdom at the airports. While this will never happen and will join the long, growing and inventive list of utterances from KSA Imams/preachers, I find quite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5958&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tunisia &amp; the benefits of hindsight</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/01/09/tunisia-the-benefits-of-hindsight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in April 2010, many people have come across this book on Tunisia unerringly failing to discern the way things would go. The Arabist has highlighted perhaps the worst paragraph, its final conclusion: Authoritarianism in Tunisia could prove to be very durable, and not simply because the government represses opponents. A majority of Tunisians may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5953&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Inside Story et al</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/01/05/on-inside-story-et-al/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Belated seasons greetings to all as well as a happy new year. Blog posting has been thin on the ground recently, which is most annoying. What can I say? I&#8217;ve been profoundly mugged by the realities of a new job and lament the loss of the days when I was only very busy. Still, I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5947&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Decoding Iran&#8217;s Missile Tests</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/01/04/decoding-irans-missile-tests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the Christmas and New Year holidays Iran undertook a series of naval exercises in Gulf waters, which included the test firing of a range of missiles, one of which could theoretically reach as far as Israel. While Iran’s military elite claimed that the tests were successful, given their record of exaggeration and the attempted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5940&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Taliban and Qatar</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/01/04/the-taliban-and-qatar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of negotiations it has been announced that the Taliban will open a representative office in Qatar. Initially, Afghan President Karzai rejected Qatar as the location of the office and even removed the Afghan Ambassador from Qatar, accusing the Doha Government of not consulting the Afghan Government on the matter. Yet at the end [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5939&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian encirclement</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/12/12/iranian-encirclement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each star is a US base. An excellent map from Juan Cole.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&amp;blog=2536663&amp;post=5897&amp;subd=thesinosaudiblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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