The average oil prices were between 70 to 80 dollars per barrel in 2010 compared to 59 dollars a barrel for 2009, after a big dive during the global financial crisis.Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah said in December oil prices will not likely to cross the 100 dollars a barrel mark in 2011 and the current prices are acceptable for both oil producing and consuming countries.The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in October the black timberland boots economic outlook for GCC countries has improved guaranteed by stable oil prices and recovering world economy.GCC economies will likely to expend 4.2 percent in 2010, following a 2.3-percent growth of GDP in 2009, the IMF said.That analysis was echoed by a report from the Diplomatic Center for Strategic Studies in Kuwait which said oil revenues in GCC countries rose by 15.6 percent or the equivalent of 63 billion dollars over the past year to reach 465 billion dollars.

The 27-percent increase is expected to bring a 9-percent economic growth in these countries at the current prices in 2011.Among the six countries, the world's top liquified natural gas (LNG) exporter Qatar would record the highest growth rate, with its real GDP projected to rise by around 10.6 percent in 2011 driven by the expansion in the gas sector.Growth were forecast at around 3.9 percent in Saudi Arabia, at nearly 3.3 percent in Kuwait and the UAE, at 6.1 percent cheap timberland boots in Oman and around 4.9 percent in Bahrain.Greek police detonated on Friday afternoon a suspicious package spotted at the entrance of the Regional Development and Competitiveness Ministry building in Athens, which eventually proved a false alarm.A squad of counter-terrorism experts proceeded to a controlled explosion of the package, as Greek authorities are on alert for possible attacks by local guerilla groups.

According to early information by Greek media, experts discovered after all that the package included only a table lamp.Greek police is on alert over the past few weeks, as local militants have threatened with attacks on "representatives of the status quo" during the trial of 13 young persons accused of terrorism activity which opened in Athens last Monday.The youths are considered as members of the "Conspiracy of the Nuclei of Fire" group which is timberland boots cheap linked to a long series of attacks on political, police and financial targets since 2009, including the case of the more than a dozen parcel bombs addressed to foreign embassies in Athens and European leaders last November.Last summer a stronger explosive device hidden inside a parcel addressed to Michalis Chrysohoidis, Citizens' Protection Minister at the time, killed a police officer next to his office.Chrysohoidis currently is Regional Development and Competitiveness Minister.