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007 · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:39 pm Post subject:

Griff-james, you should learn from this forum, there are a lot of information which are true, and which, unfortunately you ignore.

BTW, who is Sacha Baron-Cohen??

Neil McBeath · Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 277 Location: Saudi Arabia

Cleopatra - you are absolutely right. I apologise. The Frech tourists were shot in early 2007, which rather supports my point that there are still militants/terrorists/members of deviant groups still out there.

I left KSA in August last year. So let me ask a few question.

Have the Saudi authoritiues have dismantled the concrete barriers that they had erected to defend their police stations from car bombers? Have they stopped the police check-points on the road between Dammam and the King Fahad International Airport? Have they stopped setting up random police checks? Have they stopped manning rather temporary looking check pioints, complete with stinger barriers, on the streets that run outside properties used by members of the royal family?

If they have not, then the security situation is still tense.

You find none of these things in Bahrain, the Emirates or Oman. It may be that people in KSA are so used to all this that they have stopped noticing it.

Cleopatra · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:36 am Post subject:

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

We certainly don't want to overstate the security issue in KSA, but the only concrete barriers that I saw in Oman or the UAE were around the American Embassies and residences. Of course, I never made a try for tea with any of the rulers, but they may have them around their residences these days. (but maybe not...)

Kuwait has barriers about and lots of security checks... random stops on the street, but they always waved Westerners through with no stop.

VS

Cleopatra · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject:

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Yes... I should have put "Westerners" in quotes... and actually they rarely stopped women of any skin hue. Of course they were looking for illegals... few of whom are female or white.

VS

Griff-James · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:41 pm Post subject:

"Griff-james, you should learn from this forum, there are a lot of information which are true, and which, unfortunately you ignore.

BTW, who is Sacha Baron-Cohen??"

You my friend are dynamite!

My cheeks are aching Laughing

sheikh radlinrol · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Ever heard of Google?

Ever heard of the movie Borat?

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cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

Sacha Baron- Cohen is a wild, crazy & controversial comedian/ actor who challenges stereotypes within western society.

However I am not quite sure if Griff-Jame's comparison of Sacha Baron-Cohen to 007 was meant as a compliment or as a sarcastic retort Rolling Eyes

Cleopatra · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:47 am Post subject:

cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

And I agree that Sacha Cohen (Borat) reinforces stereotypes. What else would you expect from a "comedian" with his background ?

007 · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:50 am Post subject:

It seems Baron Cohen is just another English public school boy who hates Uncle Sam!

Cohen is messing with Uncle Sam; and Uncle Sam is going to mess with him., and I am going to mess with both of them. Laughing

One Evangelist from UPC camp of Mississippi said � God CAN & WILL make sure Cohen is taken care of without a lawsuit�. Laughing