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Eia.doe.govhttp://www.eia.doe.gov [Eia.doe.gov] Oil heading westwards by tanker from the Persian Gulf towards the Suez Canal or Sumed pipeline must pass through the Bab al-Mandab. Located between Djibouti and Eritrea in Africa, and Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, the Bab al-Mandab connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea.

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Britannica.comhttp://www.britannica.com [Britannica.com] the Bab -- Encyclopædia Britannica: An inland sea connected with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea separates the Arabian Peninsula from northeastern Africa. Bordered by Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia on the west and Saudi Arabia and Yemen on the east, the Red Sea occupies an area of approximately 174,000 square miles (451,000 square kilometers).

Readingeagle.com[Readingeagle.com] In the Axis: A Blog From the Middle East With Brian Anthony: Now in idle moments my Emirati students would fill me in on the seedier aspects of the whacked-out postmodern social environment of the Persian Gulf, lurid tales of the hyper-rich elite, the masses of brown workers, veritable slaves, shipped in by the scores and held under thumb to keep the country running, the drugs, the booze, the armies of prostitutes of every color, shape, and size and the mad unspeakable cavortings that made up rites of passage for a whole generation of Gulf Arab males.

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