[Al Ahram] Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have tossed in the clinkDrop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
Qatari "spies," an Emirati daily reported on Wednesday in a new sign of mounting tensions between Doha and its Gulf neighbours.
The report in Al-Khaleej newspaper, which cited Emirati sources, was in response to a report in Qatar's Al-Arab daily that three Qataris had been subjected to "arrest and torture" in UAE capital Abu Dhabi.
They were "Qatari intelligence elements operating on UAE soil," Al-Khaleej wrote on its front page. "They were arrested and are being questioned."
Relations between Qatar and its Gulf neighbours Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, the UAE and Bahrain sunk to a new low in March when the three governments recalled their ambassadors from Doha.