As the final tune-up for the ACC Trophy, the Bahrain team were in Colombo on June 3 for three warm-up matches against local club sides. |
Like the other small Gulf states such as Bahrain and Qatar, the Emiratis are realists and pragmatists, both politically and economically. |
Combat planes are stationed in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait and weapons storage and other installations are located elsewhere in the Gulf. |
It was also reported that his family was planning an emergency trip to Bahrain to try and get the pop star into rehab for a prescription drug addiction. |
He was a prime mover behind the Saudi military intervention in Bahrain a year ago to smash an incipient Shia reform movement. |
Years ago, a group of us were paid to coach rugby to young Arab sheikhs in Bahrain. |