It was bound to happen. Reports are that hundreds of police are surrounding a housing compound near Khobar in Saudi Arabia, that’s about 30 minutes drive from where I live in Bahrain across the Bahrain-Saudi Causeway which was closed today. According to the BBC 9 people are dead while Sky News reports 16 dead. There …
Month: May 2004
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 …
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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 …
What a farce. Everybody on the street knows the transgressions that ALL ministers in this country have committed. The huge amounts of money embezzled and the continuous gratuities they receive in various forms (money, land, and privileges) so much so that a minister enters the government a pauper, but leaves it a billionaire. How else …