Who said diplomacy was dead?
WAM, that's who:
Abu Dhabi, Feb 22, 2006 (WAM) - Qatari Ambassador and dean of the Diplomatic Corpse Abdullah Mohammad Al othman held a reception at Abu Dhabi Hilton Hotel to honor the out-going Syrian Ambassador Mohammad Riyadh Na'san Agha to mark the end of his tenure and his appointment as Minister of Culture in Syria.
Present at the reception were officials and heads of the Arab and foreign diplomatic missions in UAE.
With thanks to a sharp-eyed masdaar.
Abu Dhabi, Feb 22, 2006 (WAM) - Qatari Ambassador and dean of the Diplomatic Corpse Abdullah Mohammad Al othman held a reception at Abu Dhabi Hilton Hotel to honor the out-going Syrian Ambassador Mohammad Riyadh Na'san Agha to mark the end of his tenure and his appointment as Minister of Culture in Syria.
Present at the reception were officials and heads of the Arab and foreign diplomatic missions in UAE.
With thanks to a sharp-eyed masdaar.
14 Comments:
Finally a Freudian slip...wonderful. Two thumbs up to WAM!
I skim read this today and thought it was a little odd, confusing and in poor taste that they were having a party for a dead person or were using the money of a dead man to hold a party.
It was before I had my morning coffee.
SD,
What is this morbid fascination you have with such a lifeless story? You have clearly misunderstood the spirit of the original article, which raises the spectre of what you are really trying to achieve with this posting, and causes me to wonder if you have a ghost of a chance of reaching the heavenly position you onc occupied in the blogosphere. I am mortified that you have made such a grave error resulting in what will most surely be the death of this blog, and you will have to embalm yourself in another hobby to resurrect your soul.
KT's article on Abu Dhabi skycrappers is still my all time fav. Wait, did they pick that up from a WAM release - perhaps they did....
Tim - they really need to hire you!
dengerous
fatal errors are always fascinating.
Its not always the newspapers fault. Alot of these kind of stories (business, political etc) are actually press releases written by PR Companies and not real stories written by journalists. It is just lazyness on behalf of the editorial staff to not review the releases before publishing them.
On another subject.. alot of bloggers have blogs which have as much gravitas as the nutritional information on the back of a cereal box, yet they still find themselves here dissing SD and her blog.
Qatari Ambassador and dean of the Diplomatic Corpse Abdullah Mohammad Al othman sure ain't happy being dragged to all those borrrrrrring receptions !!
Well spotted. I started collecting those hilarious hiccups when I was in Bahrain many years ago and the collection still makes me roll on the floor lmao!
Bought some date honey in Burj Dubai.
Got home and read the label: "Effective for male importance problems."
Didn't say whether it was most effective as a topical application or what.
Sounds like a sticky situation in any event.
Trust most of you have been able to keep up with me.
Minkey Chief said...
Just saw the country counter - there have been more visitors from the US and UK than the UAE.
But a moment's reflection on the size of the US or UK population to the UAE population (included all the laborers - access to internet, not) and you see why.
Also when SD was blocked for a time last summer she came to the attention of lots of wired folks.
And SD writes in English.
Of course it could be that lots of her readers in the US and UK have ties to the UAE. Their little dose of SD each day may be their way of keeping up with the goings on here.
did anyone spot this today?
Britishers admire Dubai's success
John
The question is, Is the importance of keeping up with you worth the sticky effects of the honey?
somebody give the Governor of my prestigious college links to these blogs...
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