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To: michael97123 who wrote (228566)4/24/2007 5:37:25 PM
From: kumar  Respond to of 281500
 
not quite that simple... I'm trying to recollect the exact words (which I may not get right), there is an old arab saying which goes like this :

"Me against my brother", then it becomes "me and my brother against our cousins", then it becomes "our family against the tribe", then it becomes "our tribe against other tribes".

This was explained to me by a native Omani, around the fireplace, when we took him as a guide across the desert.....