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Manama, Bahrain - The Smallest of the Gulf States
December 27th 2009 Bahrain, the smallest of the Gulf States, is not much bigger than the Isle of Man, and like a lot of countries in the Gulf, oil has made this tiny island nation a rich country. Our Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Bahrain only lasted thirty minutes but was the emptiest airliner Angela and I had ever flown on. Almost every seat was deserted. I counted nineteen people on an aircraft with a capacity
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Bahrain's small size and central location among Persian Gulf countries require it to play a delicate balancing act in foreign affairs among its larger neighbors. Facing declining oil reserves, Bahrain has turned to petroleum processing and refining a... ... read more COMING SOON HOUSE ADVERTISING ads_leader_photo_bottom
