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Britons warned get out of Tunisia,ASAP.



Frutos

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May 3, 2006
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In what sense is it confusing?
 

Ninja Elephant

Doctor Elephant
Feb 16, 2009
18,855
This time last month I was in Sousse, Tunisia. What's happened there since is incredibly sad and upsetting. The resort I stayed at was along the coast from the one attacked by the feckless thug, but it has been forced to close after only being open for 3 months. This is why the country is being attacked, to close resorts and ruin the tourism industry so that there are fewer jobs for locals, and a better chance of being able to convince more young muslim men and women to join ISIS.

The time to go after the extremists is upon us.
 


symyjym

Banned
Nov 2, 2009
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Brighton / Hove actually
This time last month I was in Sousse, Tunisia. What's happened there since is incredibly sad and upsetting. The resort I stayed at was along the coast from the one attacked by the feckless thug, but it has been forced to close after only being open for 3 months. This is why the country is being attacked, to close resorts and ruin the tourism industry so that there are fewer jobs for locals, and a better chance of being able to convince more young muslim men and women to join ISIS.

The time to go after the extremists is upon us.

Tunisia is a prime target for ISIL because it has embraced democracy. I would be tempted to get a multinational force of UN troops in on the ground there to protect it, and put Tunisia on lockdown while we can and before it is too late to do so.

The downside would be that it would draw ISIL in for a fight, the upside would be making them an easier target as they concentrate their forces around Tunisia, and also giving them one too many front to fight on.
 

easynow

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Mar 17, 2013
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jakarta
No suggestion of a specific or imminent threat,you can't have it both ways.

Either it's a very sensible warning to prevent further tourist from being involved in another attack that 'may' happen soon, or the intelligence agencies actually know something is imminent and they want people the gtfo. It wouldn't be in their interest to let the terrorist know that they know exactly what they are planning.
 

SIMMO SAYS

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Jul 31, 2012
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This time last month I was in Sousse, Tunisia. What's happened there since is incredibly sad and upsetting. The resort I stayed at was along the coast from the one attacked by the feckless thug, but it has been forced to close after only being open for 3 months. This is why the country is being attacked, to close resorts and ruin the tourism industry so that there are fewer jobs for locals, and a better chance of being able to convince more young muslim men and women to join ISIS.

The time to go after the extremists is upon us.

A feckless thug! You need to have another twelve months off again:moo:
 


Soulman

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Oct 22, 2012
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Sompting
This time last month I was in Sousse, Tunisia. What's happened there since is incredibly sad and upsetting. The resort I stayed at was along the coast from the one attacked by the feckless thug, but it has been forced to close after only being open for 3 months. This is why the country is being attacked, to close resorts and ruin the tourism industry so that there are fewer jobs for locals, and a better chance of being able to convince more young muslim men and women to join ISIS.

The time to go after the extremists is upon us.

Maybe, but surely it has been stated that more recruits for ISIS have come from Tunisia than anywhere else, that was prior to the Tunisia killings at Sousse. That would suggest that it might not be just one feckless thug and that other sympathisers are around. Better to be safe than sorry.
A report a couple of days ago showed the Chinese flag and a few Chinese harassed in Turkey after Ramadan was denounced in China.
Personally i would steer well clear of these countries including Egypt.
 

beorhthelm

A. Virgo, Football Genius
Jul 21, 2003
35,239
given the FCO normally restrained approach to travel advise, it does seem odd to issue advise to get out of a country, then say they have no specific infomation of a threat. consider that they hadnt done so in the weeks since the attack.
 


DIFFBROOK

Really Up the Junction
Feb 3, 2005
2,266
Yorkshire
Never happed under Saddam, Gaddafi etc. Maybe we and to some extent the people who lived in those countries were better off with these Dictators.
 

looney

Banned
Jul 7, 2003
15,652
Never happed under Saddam, Gaddafi etc. Maybe we and to some extent the people who lived in those countries were better off with these Dictators.

Pan Am lockerbie, PC Yvonne Fletcher, Arms shipments to the IRA, training IRA in Libya terrorist camps etc.
 


The Merry Prankster

Pactum serva
Aug 19, 2006
5,576
Shoreham Beach
given the FCO normally restrained approach to travel advise, it does seem odd to issue advise to get out of a country, then say they have no specific infomation of a threat. consider that they hadnt done so in the weeks since the attack.

Unless the Government is trying to get something else on the front pages.

God, they've made me such a cynic.
 


Thunder Bolt

Ordinary Supporter
Never happed under Saddam, Gaddafi etc. Maybe we and to some extent the people who lived in those countries were better off with these Dictators.

The 62 tourists killed at Luxor in Egypt was before either of those were deposed (1997)
 

looney

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Jul 7, 2003
15,652
It isn't hindsight this was predicted by many. Don't forget that Bush and Blair went to war illegally against world wide objections, which is a great advert for democracy. You know, practice what you preach :shrug:

Do you go on about an illeagal war because you think it sounds cool?
 

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