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	<title>Abu Dhabi and Dubai Blog - Dubai Projects and Dubai News</title>
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	<description>Because something crazy happens everyday in the 3rd highest income per capita nation...</description>
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		<title>Dubai police chief&#8217;s outlandish claims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington Post laments the unfair treatment of Israel in the Dubai Hamas assasination:
Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, the police chief of Dubai, certainly knows how to milk a good story for all it’s worth. It’s now been six weeks since Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was found dead in his room in an airport hotel, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/03/04/dubai-police-chiefs-outlandish-claims/</link>
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		<title>The Slaves of Dubai</title>
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		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/03/02/the-slaves-of-dubai/</link>
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		<title>The Khalifa base jump</title>
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		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/02/27/the-khalifa-base-jump/</link>
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		<title>Burj Dubai/Khalifa closed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The observation deck on the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world, has been closed for repairs only a month after it opened. Emaar Properties, the builder of the tower, said there had been an unexpectedly high number of visitors and problems with the power supply.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8504852.stm
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		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/02/23/burj-dubaikhalifa-closed/</link>
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		<title>More on the Dubai assasination&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The murder was straight out of a cheap spy thriller. At least 11 professional assassins, some wearing wigs and fake beards, tracked a senior Hamas official to his Dubai hotel in January and killed him with cold precision, fleeing the country afterward on European passports, the Dubai police say. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/world/middleeast/17dubai.html
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		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/02/22/more-on-the-dubai-assasination/</link>
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		<title>What the Internet looks like from the UAE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<br />
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		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/02/14/what-the-internet-looks-like-from-the-uae/</link>
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		<title>Hamas militant assasinated in Dubai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Details continued to emerge yesterday on the assassination of senior Hamas member Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last week. Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan told local reporters yesterday at least seven people with European passports were involved. He did not name the specific countries of the passports, but said the Dubai police approached the nations for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/02/01/hamas-militant-assasinated-in-dubai/</link>
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		<title>Monarchy vs. progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The financial crisis and now two criminal cases that have generated critical headlines in other countries have demonstrated that the emirates remain an absolute monarchy, where institutions are far less important than royalty and where the law is particularly capricious — applied differently based on social standing, religion and nationality, political experts and human rights [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/01/23/monarchy-vs-progress/</link>
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		<title>The troubling Burj Khalifa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even as the site was being excavated more than five years ago, during the halcyon days of the Dubai miracle, the Emirates construction business was disillusioning. Dogged by human and civil rights violations, the Pakistani, Bengali, Indian, and Chinese workers who poured the reinforced concrete, put in place the support beams, and manned the high [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2010/01/16/the-troubling-burj-khalifa/</link>
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		<title>The bubble quivers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The fundamentals in the market are too strong,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There won&#8217;t be a crash.&#8221; These words were spoken last year by the head of the largest state development firm in Dubai. But it seems that things have changed:
Since then, residential real-estate prices in Dubai have slumped by almost 50%. Developers have slashed jobs and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abdb.com/2009/12/05/the-bubble-quivers/</link>
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