Newspapers (click here) with headlines reporting Bahrain has suspended opposition newspaper Al-Wasat are seen in a local coffee shop in Manama, Sunday. Bahrain suspended the Gulf Arab state's main opposition newspaper on Sunday, after accusing it of falsifying news about recent sectarian unrest and a government crackdown on protests.
Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters
Oil output about 40,000 barrels per day.
Please.
We'll leave it to Iran.
...A statement issued (click title to entry - thank you) after a meeting of foreign ministers rejected Iran's "continuing interference" in the internal affairs of the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)....
Tehran is involved in LIBERATION? Curious.
GCC rejects Iran meddling (click here)
Foreign ministers urge Yemen government and opposition to hold talks to end crisis
Published: 00:00 April 4, 2011
...In a statement at the end of an extraordinary meeting of the GCC Ministerial Council in Riyadh, chaired by Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Foreign Minister, the GCC states rejected Iran’s “continuing interference” in their internal affairs.
Iran had criticised Saudi Arabia for sending troops to Bahrain which faces protests against the government.
Tehran’s interference in the region loomed large ahead of the meeting....
Some of the dynamics that causes problems with national security in the Middle East is the ease with which people move from nation to nation. The Arab nations allow such fluid borders due to pilgramages through their land.
Nearly every year Saudi Arabia complains and ponders what to do after pilgramages take place in their nation. Requiring a citizen to register and carry ID is not a bad idea for these nations. It would provide an easy way to identify citizens, the countries they are citizens to while providing services for pilgramages to the religious. It would also provide embassies with information for citizens that find themselves stranded and in need of potential legal help. Identification would provide an easy way to idenitfy extremists and people that simply don't belong. It would have profound effect on those that come to fight 'Jihad' when they aren't members of any national military or militia.
Abu Dhabi to link visas with national IDs (click here)
UAE capital to link issuance and renewal of residence visas with ID card registration in the next three months
By Binsal Abdul Kader, Staff Reporter, Gulf News
