A number of readers overseas have e-mailed that my blog is now inaccessible in the United Arab Emirates. B. writes:

All internet users in the UAE have to use the government owned ISP, Etisalat. All web traffic is routed throught their servers where it is filtered, and some pages banned. Most of the banned pages are either porn, gambling or Israeli sites, but you have made the cut. Congrats.

One of Tim Worstall’s Dubai-based commenters sends a similar report.

Was it something I said?

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Update: Debbie Schlussel forwards an e-mail from a UAE-based reader suggesting that the ban was over the Mohammed cartoons rather than my port blogging. Very telling, either way.

For more on the port deal, read Debbie’s take here.

For useful background and debate over the port sellout, see also:

ThreatsWatch
The Mad Tea Party
Sea2Sea
AJ Strata

Fox News Channel’s Brit Hume predicts the White House will reverse course.

Via the NYPost, GOP Rep. Peter King weighs in on the Port of Gall.

Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh do their best Michelle Malkin imitations and now support national security profiling.

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