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	<title>The Sino-Saudi Blog</title>
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	<description>Saudi have it and China want it...</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Chinese closure of Mosque in Xinjiang</title>
		<link>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/06/24/chinese-closure-of-mosque-in-xinjiang/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidbroberts</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mosque]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uyghur]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters in Beijing is reporting that the Chinese authorities have closed down a Mosque in the Xinjiang region because it refused to put up posters supporting the Beijing Olympics. Aside from this initial fact, the story descends into something of a &#8216;who do you believe&#8217; situation.
One the one side, the Chinese authorities trot out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt: An autocratic state with a silver lining</title>
		<link>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/06/21/egypt-an-autocratic-state-with-a-silver-lining/</link>
		<comments>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/06/21/egypt-an-autocratic-state-with-a-silver-lining/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidbroberts</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[autocratic state]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Informing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mubarak]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the past few days there have been two saddening stories which testify to the unpleasant nature of the politics and daily life to which Egyptians are subjected by their government. Firstly, as reported in the Daily News English, an American woman handed in a video tape to be copied at the video shop in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of Al Qaeda - heard it before?</title>
		<link>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/06/11/the-end-of-al-qaeda-heard-it-before/</link>
		<comments>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/06/11/the-end-of-al-qaeda-heard-it-before/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidbroberts</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[End of Al Qaeda]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peter Bergen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The New Republic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There have been many points at which various people have claimed that Al Qaeda and other such groups are on the wane. More often than not - indeed, just about every time so far - such predictions have been woefully early, plainly hopeful, poorly researched or just plain wrong. George Bush&#8217;s cringing &#8216;Mission Accomplished&#8217; effort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saudi religious police to get firearms</title>
		<link>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/06/08/saudi-religious-police-to-get-firearms/</link>
		<comments>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/06/08/saudi-religious-police-to-get-firearms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidbroberts</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[religious police]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Saudi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabian religious police]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new study recommends that the Saudi religious police ought to be given extra training as well as firearms to protect themselves from the increasing number of attacks to which they have been subjected in the past few years. Somehow the study estimated that &#8220;82 percent of the members of all commission branches are incapable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bahrain&#8217;s brave choice for its American Ambassador</title>
		<link>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/06/06/bahrains-brave-choice-for-its-american-ambassador/</link>
		<comments>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/06/06/bahrains-brave-choice-for-its-american-ambassador/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidbroberts</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bahrain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Western-Muslim Relations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[American ambassador]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[female]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[jewish]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesinosaudiblog.wordpress.com/?p=116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not wishing to be outdone by America and their first female or non-White Presidential candidate, Bahrain have done their best to go one better, all be it in a slightly less prestigious role. Not only have they just announced that their new ambassador to America is going to be a woman, a forward move for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Saudi interfaith dialogue</title>
		<link>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/06/06/the-saudi-interfaith-dialogue/</link>
		<comments>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/06/06/the-saudi-interfaith-dialogue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidbroberts</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Interfaith dialogue]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[leadership role]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesinosaudiblog.wordpress.com/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia has once again sought to assert its place as the de facto leader of the Muslim world. King Abdullah gave a speech at three day conference at Mecca on the future of Islam and other religions, following on from the much publicised Saudi call for an interfaith dialogue. The King called for unity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1000 years for Egyptian fraudster</title>
		<link>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/05/18/1000-years-for-egyptian-fraudster/</link>
		<comments>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/05/18/1000-years-for-egyptian-fraudster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 17:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidbroberts</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sentence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesinosaudiblog.wordpress.com/?p=115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC has just reported that an Egyptian man has just been sentenced to 1000 years in jail for conning people out of money over a two decade period. The farcically long sentence is, however, but half the story, with the other half discussing and highlighting the apparent trend and propensity for Egyptians to willingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The great American give away</title>
		<link>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/05/17/the-great-american-give-away/</link>
		<comments>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/05/17/the-great-american-give-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 19:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidbroberts</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[American ME Relations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Western-Muslim Relations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[nuclear technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Saudi American relationship]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesinosaudiblog.wordpress.com/?p=114</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia are proud of the fact that they are the world&#8217;s largest swing producer of oil. They are the only country in the world with enough spare capacity to, at the drop of the proverbial and highly theoretical hat, pump out more of the black stuff. However, they are being - as you may have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al Wahhab&#8217;s Jewish origins - according to Saddam</title>
		<link>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/04/10/al-wahhabs-jewish-origins-according-to-saddam/</link>
		<comments>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/04/10/al-wahhabs-jewish-origins-according-to-saddam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidbroberts</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[conspiracy theories]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Iraqi intelligence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MESH]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wahhabi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wahhabism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesinosaudiblog.wordpress.com/?p=111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is well known that Saudi Arabia was born out of an agreement between the Muhammed ibn Abd Al Wahhab and Muhammed Ibn Saud in the 18th century. Ibn Saud would provide the means and protection for Al Wahhab to spread his word, and he would in turn provide religious sanctification of Saud’s rule. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect harmony of snipers, capitalism, Bush and the Nato summit in Bucharest</title>
		<link>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/03/28/perfect-harmony-of-snipers-capitalism-bush-and-the-nato-summit-in-bucharest/</link>
		<comments>http://thesinosaudiblog.com/2008/03/28/perfect-harmony-of-snipers-capitalism-bush-and-the-nato-summit-in-bucharest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidbroberts</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bucharest]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nato summit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sniper]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a wonderful snippet of news from The Times.
&#8220;Stringent security measures before a Nato summit in Bucharest next week to be attended by George Bush and Gordon Brown, irritated Bogdan Surdu, 29, a web designer, so much that he posted an internet ad offering his terrace with a clear view of the conference hall as [...]]]></description>
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