Leekbrookgull
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Lead story on News24 and is this politics being played out here ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46288510
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[News] Briton jailed for life in UAE.
- Thread starter Leekbrookgull
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I wouldn't mind holding her in "inhumane and degrading" conditions.
Am I right... Am I right?
Am I right... Am I right?
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
- 17,075
Surprised he didn't receive death penalty if UAE has it for such crimes. Every cloud...
Pavilionaire
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
- 30,578
This looks like a complete failure of diplomacy. Who are winners here? And this in the week when hundreds of Brits will be at Formula 1's grand season finale at Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,184
No. On this occasion you're a dick.
I really don't know why the UK keeps doing business with these disgusting backward, stone age Middle East states. Well OK, I do, oil and weapons, but it's about time we put our morals first.
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
Agreed. On the same day that Save the Children have reported
...and we are still selling Arabs weapons
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,310
"researching the country's security strategy." sounds an awful lot like spying.
Or at least "not a very good idea" being aware of other cases.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Just illustrates that there are some 'no go' countries and it is just not worth the risk of going there.
A few years ago a mate of mine got a contract to do some rope access work on some sort of oil project in Pakistan. Him and the other guys were told it was a safe area and it was only a four week job, good money etc etc.
Alarm bells started ringing when the trucks taking them from the hotel to the job took FOREVER to get there. More so when they saw what looked like a heavily armed border control post. They kicked off and got the bloke in charge to tell them what was going on. The job was actually in Afghanistan.
After a lot of shouting, the blokes who still wanted to go negotiated double the rate. My mate and the others who said "**** that" were bussed back to their hotels, paid off and sent home.
Some things are more important than money and some countries look benign on the face of it but are just as dangerous.
Creaky
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I agree!
If an Arab had been convicted and sentenced in a UK court for spying after putting forward that defence I don’t think there would be many complaints.
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
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Cash is king I'm afraid, we can't let any business opportunity slip from now on, no matter how odious they are.
It's not just "from now on" though unfortunately. Always has been and always will be. We'll just be a bit more desperate to deal with total scum, whatever the moral cost.
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
- 17,075
Safer using Google and could stayed in the UK.
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
- 17,075
This all day long. I don't understand why people don't realise this. I will not set foot in many countries. Sure they're perfectly safe and nothing bad happen to me but there's always a small risk and their draconian laughable laws by our standards means I wouldn't want to run the risk. Alcohol in your bloodstream arriving in transit on an aircraft...? That'll be 230 years solitary confinement m'royal shakiness! No thanks!!
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
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True, but it will get worse now. Trump with his views on Saudi Arabia have set a new all time low.
At total bellend if you ask me
Yet you support a terrorist group in Hamas lol