Have noticed that Angelo, it's common in the region. Like anywhere in the world, ask the neighbours and you find out more.
When we arrived in Qatar, the GT carried a story about a guy "getting off" a charge of raping a camel because the camel couldn't give evidence. It never appeared in the Kuwait press.
I read the Khaleej Times and Gulf News from the UAE as we spent a couple of years there.
Maybe there has been a massacre at the GT and they are all dead.