If you check the Sharjah Airport arrival and departure lists, here, you’ll see a variety of interesting things. For a start, there’s the regular BGIA service to Baghdad as previously blogged. There are other dubious names like Airline Transport, Air West and TransAvia Export. But what is the explanation of the 3 or sometimes 4…
Read More Viktor Bout: What’s Up in the Yemen?Well, after the Mexican officials who unwisely had RFID radio identifier chips implanted in their bodies as a (probably counterproductive) precaution against kidnapping, and the Barcelona nightclub whose habitués can jump the queue by waving their radio-identified bodies at a reader, this depressing trend has landed in Britain. Back in July, I argued that this…
Read More This is not a good idea.The Washington Post reports on the case of an Australian released from Guantanamo Bay who cannot leave because the US Government insists the Australians chain him up throughout the 22-hour flight. So – he’s being released because he isn’t a terrorist, but he has to be chained up in case he hijacks the plane all…
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