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The Kingdom is on high alert after the audacious assassination attempt during Ramadan – the first recorded Al-Qaeda attack on a Saudi royal in recent times – and the security focus is on the border with Yemen

Saudi Arabia | Yemen
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Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (MBR), speaking during a recent audience with local and international media, said the UAE economy was strong. He paid $2.05m for a foal

United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Mecca visit; New counter-terrorism department; Successful surgerKing Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz was in Mecca from 10-19 September. Interior Minister Prince Nayef Bin Abdelaziz has said the Kingdom will soon open a special department for combating terrorism. Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal had successfully undergone spinal surgery in the United States. Princess Sara Bint Talal Bin Abdelaziz, in co-operation with Lord Sebastian Coe, opened a new laboratory at the UK’s Middlesex University in mid-September. Abta Bint Miqrin sponsors heritage eventy; Middlesex laboratory; Sponsors heritage event

Saudi Arabia
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With persistent rumours about the Supreme Leader’s health, key figures are jostling for power as they await the succession that many expect sooner rather than later. Meanwhile, with growing influence, the Rahbar’s son Mojtaba Khamenei waits in the wings

Iran
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The Al-Houthi rebellion is closely linked to the north's distinctive traditions of Zaidi Shiism and the emergence of a 'revivalist' movement among Zaidis resentful of the growing influence of the Sunni conservative Salafi Wahhabis

Yemen
Issue 861 - 26 September 2009

Ghaya Bint Sultan Death

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Ras Al-Khaimah ruler’s court in mid-September announced the death of Sheikha Ghaya Bint Sultan Bin Salem Al-Qasimi

United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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The return of mass bomb attacks to the streets of Iraq is a potent reminder that the country is still ruled by violence. As the murder of four of the five Britons kidnapped by Shia extremists shows, extreme force still pays political dividends in this brutal environment

Iraq
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A conservative member of the National Assembly, Jassim Al-Saidi, has accused Shia opposition party Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society of meddling in internal Yemeni affairs.

Bahrain
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The position of Ismailis in Najran is set against the troubling state of neighbouring northern Yemen, where the conflict between government forces and the Al-Houthi rebel movement is growing more intense

Saudi Arabia | Yemen
Issue 860 - 12 September 2009

Lockerbie release: Qatar’s Scottish play

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Qatar seems to have played a facilitating role in getting convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbasset Ali Mohammed Al-Megrahi back to Libya, just as it helped in getting the Bulgarian medics out of Colonel Qadhafi’s Jamahiriya (State of the Masses) in 2007.

Qatar
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The Majlis has approved 18 of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s 21 nominations to government posts, many of whom are hardliners loyal to the president and with backgrounds in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The composition of the new government further fuels suspicion that the IRGC is seizing power in the Islamic Republic. It has become more prominent since it backed Ahmadinejad in June’s disputed presidential election, subsequently clamping down on dissenters and opposition.

Iran
Issue 860 - 12 September 2009

Gulfis graduate from Sandhurst

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Several Gulfis were among the latest batch of officers to pass out of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Bahraini graduates included

Kuwait | Bahrain | Oman
Issue 860 - 12 September 2009

Iranian concerns

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The first term of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad restored hardline conservative nationalism to centre stage. The president's continuing nuclear programme, ignoring Saudi demands for a nuclear-free Gulf, could only deepen anxieties. Riyadh's concern has been heightened by the ruthlessness with which

Iran | Saudi Arabia
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For all their power and wealth, few among the Saudi merchant class attained the level of fame of Khalid Bin Mahfouz

Saudi Arabia
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The wily president will need all his political skills to find a way out of the present crisis, but with national unity in jeopardy Ali Abdullah Saleh seems in no mood to compromise on major issues, and jails across Yemen are filling up

Yemen