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zaytuni
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oh_lucky_me
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Oh please!!!!!!
Nine foreigners enter the country armed with illegal wireless radios, metal detectors, excavation tools and extensive camera equipment. They set up camp near an oilfied, not very far from army training ground and one of the largest explosive magazines in the country, having spent nearly two weeks illegally helping themselves to bits and pieces if the land. Words fail me when I see that he had the audacity to call the police idiots! |
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Signor
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:28 am Post subject: |
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Would definitely agree .
The whole thing seems a scam once you investigate the website and I don't know what he expects to achieve by all of this. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:33 am Post subject: |
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| Do you think he feels better having set up the site? |
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Signor
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 9:38 am Post subject: |
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Possibly he's channelled his aggression and got some attention but what a waste of effort from someone who has decent website building skills. Maybe having set up his site (and sold some rocks?), he may just move on.
Let's hope so. |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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Oh Lucky Me...
I was trying to be diplomatic, but you have said exactly my thoughts!! Thanks...
C... |
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Signor
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd consider it all to be ridiculous myself. I know both sides of the story of the woman from Aust... and personally she sounded like the often unstable individuals that are encountered in the TEFL world. She had a beef with her Ministry employer (insisting that she should choose her teaching location, not them) and she took the dispute into territory that made her break the law. The story on amnesty is only her side and largely, if not mostly, false. |
I'm glad you filled in some of the details - I've heard this story a number of times and always felt it was either untrue or very biased. But I'm surprised (or maybe naive), I thought Amnesty International was fairly accurate in its reporting.
I certainly learn something new everyday! |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
I find that with many of the amnesty stories, they don't seem to always make a great deal of effort to check both sides of a story very carefully. I suppose that they get so many tales like this that this is an inevitable problem. It is not as if they have an unlimited budget and that many employees.
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