Bahrain

A squabble blew up in early May after Bahrain nominated a candidate for GCC secretary-general, Mohammad al-Mutawa, who is particularly disliked in Qatar as a result of his role in leading Bahrain's propaganda effort in the long-running dispute over ownership of the Hawar Islands, which were awarded to Bahrain in 2001 by an international court of justice. On May 8, not long after it had been proposed that Mutawa take charge from 2011, Qatari coastguards shot and injured a Bahraini fisherman for allegedly straying into Qatari territorial waters - a clear raising of the stakes. The subsequent weeks saw a

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