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As Dubai’s Glitter Fades, Foreigners See Dark Side - washingtonpost.com](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/09/AR2009080902421.html?wprss=rss_world):

Jaubert said he heard whispers about Dubai’s darker side – the abuse of desperate laborers from impoverished Asian lands, the jailing of the occasional Westerner who crossed a sheik – but “I brushed it all off. I saw glamour. I saw marble columns, mirrors and money.”