Hate Messages in UAE Mosque Toilets (Racist Comments, Vulgar Rawings, Messages Supporting Terrorism)
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Racist comments, vulgar drawings, messages supporting terrorism deface mosque washroomsMosque washrooms in Dubai and Sharjah are being defaced by racist slurs, vulgar remarks and hate messages, a random XPRESS survey revealed. The offensive posts — mostly too graphic to be shown or talked about here — were found scribbled behind toilet doors in restrooms attached to mosques. XPRESS visited several restrooms at mosques in Dubai, including those in Deira, Bur Dubai, Karama, Mankhool, Satwa and Al Safa, and also mosques in Rolla and Abu Shagara in Sharjah. On an average, only four out of around 15 were found to be...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 12:29:13 AM
US Treasury Department cuts Iran's cash pipeline,sources say
Posted by admin / Under Dubai Shopping Festival
The U.S. Treasury Department disrupted a Dubai-based banking operation that Washington believes had become Tehran's primary conduit for evading international sanctions and processing its oil sales, according to people briefed on the operation. The effort was particularly sensitive because the targeted institution in the United Arab Emirates is partly owned by the local government of Dubai, a close U.S. ally. The chairman of the bank, called the Noor Islamic Bank, is the son of Dubai's ruler.
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 12:29:13 AM
Tiger Falls Short [Golf Ping]
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- Perhaps it is rare to think of Tiger Woods mingling among a crowd of people wealthier than him, but there he was Sunday afternoon on the 18th green at Abu Dhabi Golf Club, as U.A.E. sheikhs worth billions tried to administer a trophy presentation.
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 12:29:13 AM
Syria Ignores Arab Deadline (Rumors of War)
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Dubai: Syria faced new sanctions after missing an Arab League deadline yesterday to allow observers to monitor the uprising.A senior Qatari official was quoted as saying that Syria had asked for "new clarifications and further amendments to be made to the protocol which was proposed" to cover the deployment of the observer mission. But the Arab ministers had "refused."Yesterday's deadline was announced in Doha by Qatari Prime Minister Shaikh Hamad Bin Jasem Al Thani, who also warned against the internationalisation of the Syrian crisis if Damascus did not heed the Arab call.
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 12:29:13 AM
Son of former IRGC commander murdered in Dubai (Iranian born US Citizen)
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Police in Dubai and the Associated Press are trying to claim that Ahmad Rezai's death was a suicide, but even the office of the Supreme Leader today acknowledged that Ahmad Rezai, 35, was murdered in the Gloria Hotel in Dubai today. The initial police report quoted by the AP claims he was found with a slit wrist, but Iranian websites and Rezai's father's Tabnak website say that he was found dead under "suspicious circumstances," apparently electrocuted. The regime had good cause to murder the younger Rezai, who initially fled to the United States in 1998 and denounced the regime and...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 12:29:13 AM
Report: Son of Iranian conservative presidential contender dies in Dubai, police say suicide
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The son of a prominent Iranian conservative who ran against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009 has died in a Dubai hotel in an apparent suicide, a Dubai police official and an Iranian website said Sunday.
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 12:29:13 AM
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