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2005-12-19 Arabia

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-12-19 10:18|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "This issue is very worrying, not just for the GCC but for whole world," he told reporters.

An absolutely blinding flash of the obvious I'd say, but not one they'll have to fret over much longer.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-12-19 10:55|| 2005-12-19 10:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Blah, blah, blah. When they actually do *something*, then I'll be impressed... perhaps.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-12-19 11:03|| 2005-12-19 11:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Expect a strongly worded resolution Real Soon Now(tm). Along with a couple of not so subtle swipes at the Israelis, no doubt.

Posted by SteveS 2005-12-19 11:57|| 2005-12-19 11:57|| Front Page Top

#4 "We trust Iran but we don''t want to see an Iranian nuclear plant which is closer in distance to our Gulf shores than to Tehran causing us danger and damage," GCC Secretary-General Abdul Rahman al-Attiya said ahead of the opening on Sunday.

I'll translate: They don't trust Iran.

Posted by tu3031 2005-12-19 12:02|| 2005-12-19 12:02|| Front Page Top

#5 And/or: they don't want to be nearby when that thing goes up in a mushroom cloud after a strike or when the reactor splits open and pollutes the Gulf waters.

Action? We don't "do" action - that's what we let the Americans in for. You know, Filipinas for maids, Americans for troops .....

Posted by too true 2005-12-19 12:08|| 2005-12-19 12:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Sorta reminiscent of relatives intervening with an alcoholic live-in uncle who likes to smoke in bed. Sooner or later (my money's on sooner), either Iran is reined in by its Arab neighbors or else all of them are going to be up to their collective ass in alligators.

Posted by Zenster 2005-12-19 17:33|| 2005-12-19 17:33|| Front Page Top

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