Making the World's Richest Safe in Dubai
With the coming of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) meetings, even more invasive measures have been taken. All basement parking across Sheikh Zayed Road (the main thoroughfare that runs through the financial district) has been closed, effectively shutting access for thousands of tourists and residents. All employees and visitors to the buildings along Sheikh Zayed Road are searched upon entering and leaving. The amount of uniformed and undercover security officials has multiplied on a level never seen before. There are constant and supposedly random roadside security checkpoints all around the financial district and the World Trade Center convention center where the meetings are to be held. An interview with a worker in Dubai
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Benjamin Netanyahu "Welcomed" in Dubai
Former Israeli Prime Minister, and current Minister of Finance under Ariel Sharon, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu is set to arrive in Dubai, UAE on Tuesday evening, to attend the annual International Monetary Fund (IMF) meetings. Previously rumored to have cancelled the trip due to security reasons, Netanyahu confirmed this morning that he will be accompanying an Israeli diplomatic delegation to the meetings, being held at Dubai's World Trade Center. read the whole story
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 Relentless Sabotage Ruins U.S. Plans to Steal Iraqi Oil
A week before the IMF began their proceedings in Dubai, Peter Robertson, vice chairman of Chevron-Texaco, was here to gloat about his corporation's war conquests in Iraq at the Middle East Petroleum and Gas Conference. With military occupation leadership such as former Chevron director Condoleeza Rice, Mr Robertson has every reason in the world to be, in his words, "hopeful" about Iraq. Only the most naive still reject the obvious -- that plundering Iraq for its 115 billion barrels of oil reserves is a main motivation for the grisly war launched by former oil barons in the current White House administration. But a growing resistance throughout Iraq -- threatening to become a popular war against the US and UK -- is sabotaging the occupying army's ability to steal Iraqi oil. read the full story
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Dubai IMF Media Watch
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