Bee on Cassia, originally uploaded by malyousif. This particular tree, the Cassia surattensis, attracts these bumble-bees which dive-bomb it to get the nectar. Stand long enough and you can certainly imagine a fighter jets descending on a carrier or a war zone with the noise and movements they make! Have a wonderful Friday (the thirteenth!) …
I received a summons yesterday delivered to my home instructing me to present myself at the High Criminal Court next Tuesday (17 April 2007) charged under both the Penal Code (3/92, 364, 365) and the Press & Publications Law 47/2002 (3/4, 72, 77) in the defamation case brought against me by a sitting minister; H. …
This is a fabrication. I’ve just spoken to officials in both banks and they were adamant in refuting the correctness of the deposit slip. It is fake and manufactured. MP Salah Ali is innocent of this particular claim: 1. The bank does NOT stamp “Signature Verified” on deposit slips, further, BISB’s signature verification stamp is …
Just got this in an email, a deposit slip of BD 4 MILLION, that is US$ 10.6 million, to account number 1-20853224-1 in the name of one Salah Ali Mohammed at the Bahrain Islamic Bank in the form of a cheque drawn on the HSBC bank account number 99123-1-2 cheque number 223598. The deposit slip …
This fight took a lot longer in coming than I expected, add to that the fact that its catalyst came from an completely unexpected loyalist quarter and those whom we thought would be tenacious in presenting and championing these causes were once again reactionary in their approach. No matter. The important thing is that the …