The Gulf's security mandarins were in no mood to dismiss the New Year rioting in Bahrain as simple hooliganism when they gathered at two key meetings in early January (GSN 701/4). An impromptu meeting between GCC intelligence and security ministers in Kuwait on 4 January set the scene for further discussions at the sidelines of a scheduled meeting between Arab interior and information ministers in Tunis on 14 January.
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