THE SPINE FEBRUARY 26, 2010
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The local police have a pretty comprehensive surveillance capability. So don’t think that, if you’re crazy enough to retire to this economically troubled mini-state--still with large and now cheap villas (and even cheaper Asian labor)--you will have real privacy of any sort. Privacy in Dubai is reserved for Hamas and the vast network of Iranian arms traders, money launderers, and more ordinary gangsters.
When the Dubai cops really want to, they can find out what they want—as you’ve seen with the otherwise highly successful Mossad operation. But the massive arrival of Mossadniks reveals that this is, even at best, an after-the-fact Arab police operation.
Zvi Bar’el has a fascinating little narrative in Ha’aretz.
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I posted this elsewhere but it belongs here too. I suppose this means that a call for Jihad against Israel is acceptable: "Kadhafi's call for Swiss jihad unacceptable, say France, UN" "France, the United Nations and the European Union officials has condemned Colonel Moamer Kadhafi's call for a jihad against Switzerland, after the Libyan leader said that such a move would not count as terrorism. Kadhafi defended the idea of a holy Islamic war on Switzerland after the Swiss government's recent decision to ban the construction of minarets. Kadhafi's statement is "unacceptable", France's Foreign Affairs Ministry said Friday. "Differences between Libya and Switzerland should be settled by negotation," said spokesperson Bernard Valero. "I believe that such declarations on the part of the head of state are inadmissable in international relations," said UN Director-General Sergei Ordzhonikidze on Friday. "And that's to say nothing of actions." The UN - which has its European headquarters in Geneva - is well equipped to prevent any attempt to breach its security, he added. An EU foreign affairs spokesman agreed that the statement was "unfortunate". They were responding to comments by Kadhafi [1] on Thursday in which he defended attacks on perceived enemies of Islam. "Jihad against Switzerland, against Zionism, against foreign aggression is not terrorism," the Libyan leader said in a speech marking the birthday of Muslim prophet Mohammed on Friday. "It’s quite typical of Colonel Kadhafi to make an outrageous statement of that kind, but of course it also reflects his anger and the anger of many Muslims too about the Swiss vote recently to ban the construction of minarets," Middle East specialist George Joffé of the University of Oxford told RFI. UN or EU condemnations will not worry Kadhafi, Joffé says....." http://www.english.rfi.fr/africa/20100226-kadhafis-call-swiss-jihad-unac...
- jdyer
February 26, 2010 at 4:53pm
OK, here is a link that works: http://www.english.rfi.fr/africa/20100226-kadhafis-call-swiss-jihad-unacceptable-say-france-un
- jdyer
February 26, 2010 at 4:55pm