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Israel linked to exiled sheikh's bid for 'coup' in Gulf emirate of RAK
By Robert Booth and Ian Ferguson / The Gaurdian The alliance with Israel is the latest twist in the already extraordinary saga of Khalid's bid to return to power

Categories: Arabian Peninsula  Israel  Iran  United Arab Emirates  Gulf Emirate  

Added: July 29, 2010

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Prince warns S. Arabia of apocalypse
By PRESS TV Saudi Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has warned the country's royal family to step down and flee before a military coup or a popular uprising overthrows the kingdom.

Categories: Saudis  Arabian Peninsula  Dictatorship  Corruption  Military Coup  

Added: June 10, 2010

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The stakes get higher as Arab princes try to outdo each other
By Robert Fisk / The Independent Afghanistan is collapsing in blood; Iraq remains a state of semi-civil war; the Israelis continue to thieve land for Jews and Jews only from the Arabs who hold the title deeds to that property - and Prince al-Waled wants to build a tower reaching a kilometre into the sky. Do the Saudis - who gave so much largesse to the Taliban  - not have the slightest idea of what is going on around them.

Categories: Arabian Peninsula  Dubai  Corruption  Saudis  Wealth  

Added: January 18, 2010

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Burj Khalifa: Behind the glitz
By Rafia Zakaria / altmuslim.com The inauguration of the tower and the acquittal of the sheikh is a lurid juxtaposition of the hypocrisy, gluttony and crude injustice that lies beneath a glitzy façade. None of the innovation or glamour is indigenous; the architecture is American, the designers European and the slave labour South Asians.

Categories: Dubai  Arabian Peninsula  Brutality  Exploitation  Injustice  Expatriates  

Added: January 16, 2010

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Saudi Arabia goes to war
By Mai Yamani / The Gaurdian By attacking the Houthi rebels of Yemen, Riyadh is ill-advisedly turning up the heat on the region's cold war. A crucially important conflict, woefully under-reported in the west, has now come to a head in the Middle East. In response to an ongoing fight that could spill out beyond the Arabian peninsula.

Categories: Yemen  Saudis  Sectarianism  The Arab World  Arabian Peninsula  

Added: November 23, 2009

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