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Bahrain’s Crown Prince Says Middle East BlackBerry Bans Are “Ignorant”

By Brian Lam Published August 5, 2010, 4:39 pm ET

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Bahraini Crown Prince Sheikh Salman Al-Khalifa chimes in on the BlackBerry bans set to happen tomorrow in Saudi Arabia and the UAE over worries of encryption. Via his Foreign Minister’s twitter account, he’s quoted as calling the bans “Ignorant, short sighted and unenforceable.”

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