Dubai of Arabia

drawing by marguerita “What I have achieved for Dubai is just 10 percent of my vision,” he would often tell visitors.

As the debt crisis was exploding last week, the 62-year-old Sheik was casually tweeting during a tour of the British Museum — “Inspired by Islamic artifacts,” he wrote, leading many here to ask how much Sheik Mohammed knew about Dubai’s precarious finances.Current and former advisers say they think Sheik Mohammed’s aides left him in the dark for several weeks or even months Aas Dubai’s problems mounted. Hundreds of property projects have been frozen, and the Western financiers who once flocked here have fled in droves.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/world/middleeast/04dubai.html?ref=global-home

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