Month: May 2004

U.S., Bahrain reach free-trade agreement

This just in… The United States has successfully concluded negotiations for a free trade agreement with Bahrain, wrapping up the negotiations in just four months, both countries announced Thursday. “This is a high-quality, comprehensive agreement that will provide American workers, consumers and businesses unprecedented economic opportunity in Bahrain,” U.S. trade representative Robert Zoellick said in …

Red-Indians? Aborigines? Indigenous Bahrainis? They existed at some time? Wow!

It took them six months, reports, research, questioning, exploring, insider information, legal advice, interviews, and testimonies and our illustrious exalted MPs couldn’t determine that there were extra-legal naturalisations. Let alone the fact that a Bahraini passport would cost you between BD 4,000 to 10,000 to get, no questions asked. Let alone that virtually the whole …