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A Ghost Army of Workers Is Paid to Do Nothing in the Gulf | Bloomberg
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Links for January 14th
Automatically posted links for January 14th:
- Daily Kos: Bush fawns over the U.A.E. – Great takedown of Bush’s appraisal of UAE as “model society”
- Total, Suez, Areva to build two nuclear plants in Abu Dhabi – The Middle East nuclear race that really matters
- Bush Nudges Mideast on Democracy – Story number 129747247 on Bush abandoning democracy talk
- Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel – Tiny Iranian boats not aggressive and posed no threat
- Pursuing happiness behind the veil – The LAT’s Jeffrey Fleishman: king of the mixed metaphor
- Islamists emerge in stifled Tunisia – Returnee mujahideen spell trouble
- Kuwait set to invest as Merrill seeks $4bn – Another big Gulfie investment in top Western financial firm
- EGYPT HOLDS ARMY OFFICERS FOR ‘PLOTTING ISRAEL ATTACKS’ – Now, if you were an Egyptian Islamist in the army, would it be Israel that’s your target?
- EGYPT: Iraqi refugee return driven by lack of money IRIN Middle East | Middle East | Egypt | EGYPT: Iraqi refugee return driven by lack of money | Early Warning Refugees/IDPs | News Item – Iraqis fleeing death find poverty in Egypt
Del.icio.us links for November 23rd
Automatically posted links for November 23rd:
- Arab Countries to Send Senior Delegations to Peace Talks – Saudi reluctantly coming along, other Arab states breathe sifh of relief
- Hands Off Iran – “I will not pay my income tax if we go to war with Iran.”
- U.S. Navy steps up fuel deliveries to Gulf forces | Reuters – Increased supply could mean exercises to warn Iran, or worse
- «La vie sexuelle d’un islamiste à Paris» de Leila Marouane | Babelmed –
- AFP: Egypt Copt jailed 45 years after father’s conversion – Utterly ridiculous
- ANALYSIS: PA should have set the bar higher at the outset – Haaretz – Even an Israeli newspaper is aghast at the Palestinians “defeatist attitude” pre-Annapolis
- Al-Qaeda in Algeria | Babelmed – Interview with Hamida Layachi, expert on GSPC
Del.icio.us links for November 20th
Automatically posted links for November 20th:
- List of invitees to Mideast peace talks – Yahoo! News – How do I get an invite?
- Obama: I tried drugs as a teen (AP) – Kids: do drugs and drink, it doesn’t matter you might still be president or at least senator.
- Divorce in Egypt every six minutes (iafrica.com) –
- Islamists Today: The Man Who Once Secretly Ruled the Islamic Jihad Speaks out – Khalil Enani looks at the man at the center of the Islamic Jihad recantation
- The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Annapolis and After – ICG report suggests getting serious in Annapolis, notably by including Hamas and Syria
- Sandmonkey Tales: Abdel Monem and me – Sandmonkey is stirring shit again…
- In West Bank, Checkpoints Splinter Palestinian Economy – WSJ.com – West Bank economy “shattered”, says World Bank
- Wealthy Nations In Gulf Rethink Peg to Dollar – WSJ.com – To peg or not to peg?
- FOXNews.com – Egyptian Woman Files for Divorce Over Husband’s Refusal to Shower – Another great headline
- Le Monde.fr : Les bars a  narguilés menacés de fermeture le 1er janvier – France to close down shisha bars