GCC Concerned Over Foreign Labor Unrest

ABU DHABI [MENL] -- The Gulf Cooperation Council has deemed the prospect of
foreign labor unrest a major threat.
GCC security sources said the six member-states have sought to enhance
cooperation in the monitoring of expatriate labor forces and their links to
opposition groups. The sources said GCC security agencies have been on alert
for unrest by the huge foreign labor force amid the global economic crisis.
"When you're talking about 10,000 foreign workers, from any nationality,
holding a demonstration, it can paralyze the Interior Ministry of any Arab
Gulf country, except Saudi Arabia, which is used to handling massive numbers
of people because of Haj," Sami Al Faraj, president of the Kuwait Center for
Strategic Studies, said.