Interesting Article on DXB - Vanity Fair April '11
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AA Gill is a p$!(k who needs sensationalism to keep his name in the news. He may indeed have made some good observations, but he also spouts some complete crap.
A twit who came for a freebie, nothing more, quite a lot less
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Same old story...someone criticizes DXB/EK/UAE...the messenger is being attacked...the style or his bias is criticized...some name calling...but still waiting for any rectification of the actual message...
Btw. A journalist trip to Dubai is not a freebie, it's part of their effing job...or do you see your layovers also as freebies??
Btw. A journalist trip to Dubai is not a freebie, it's part of their effing job...or do you see your layovers also as freebies??
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It is the Daily Mail/Hate but there has to be at least a basis of truth.
British tourist Lee Bradley Brown 'beaten to death' in Dubai police cell | Mail Online
A rather more restrained version of events in the Torygraph
British tourist Lee Bradley Brown 'beaten to death' in Dubai police cell | Mail Online
A rather more restrained version of events in the Torygraph
British tourist 'beaten to death in Dubai prison cell'
A British tourist was beaten to death in a Dubai prison cell, it has been claimed.
Lee Bradley Brown
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Lee Bradley Brown, from Dagenham in East London, is understood to have flown alone to Dubai for a holiday Photo: FACEBOOK
British tourist 'beaten to death in Dubai prison cell'
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Lee Bradley Brown is understood to have flown alone to Dubai for a holiday where he was staying at the Burj al Arab hotel Photo: BLOOMBERG
7:38AM BST 14 Apr 2011
Lee Bradley Brown was on holiday in the Arab state when he was arrested and thrown in jail.
It is alleged that he was beaten up by a group of police officers and then dragged from his cell.
Mr Bradley Brown was not allowed access to a lawyer or given enough food and water, it was claimed.
The first his family heard about the incident was when his sister received a call from a fellow inmate who contacted her in the UK.
The prisoner had apparently found her number as the next of kin contact in his passport which was left in his cell.
Mr Bradley Brown’s family were formally told about his death on Wednesday.
His sister, who did not want to be named, told The Daily Mail: “It is very difficult at the moment, as you would expect, and his mum is extremely upset.
“We were the ones that first contacted the British embassy in Dubai with concerns after an inmate out there got in touch with us.
“We were told unofficially on Tuesday it was true and the worst was confirmed on Wednesday.
“The inmates we spoke to at the jail are currently waiting to give statements to the police but now they’re in fear for their own lives.”
Mr Bradley Brown, from Dagenham in East London, is understood to have flown alone to Dubai for a holiday where he was staying at the Burj al Arab hotel.
He was arrested on April 6 for alleged assault, intimidating behaviour and using abusive language, it was claimed.
A British embassy spokesman said: “I can confirm the man died in custody and that the embassy is taking the allegations very seriously.
“We are launching an investigation and working with Dubai police.”
A British tourist was beaten to death in a Dubai prison cell, it has been claimed.
Lee Bradley Brown
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Lee Bradley Brown, from Dagenham in East London, is understood to have flown alone to Dubai for a holiday Photo: FACEBOOK
British tourist 'beaten to death in Dubai prison cell'
Image 1 of 2
Lee Bradley Brown is understood to have flown alone to Dubai for a holiday where he was staying at the Burj al Arab hotel Photo: BLOOMBERG
7:38AM BST 14 Apr 2011
Lee Bradley Brown was on holiday in the Arab state when he was arrested and thrown in jail.
It is alleged that he was beaten up by a group of police officers and then dragged from his cell.
Mr Bradley Brown was not allowed access to a lawyer or given enough food and water, it was claimed.
The first his family heard about the incident was when his sister received a call from a fellow inmate who contacted her in the UK.
The prisoner had apparently found her number as the next of kin contact in his passport which was left in his cell.
Mr Bradley Brown’s family were formally told about his death on Wednesday.
His sister, who did not want to be named, told The Daily Mail: “It is very difficult at the moment, as you would expect, and his mum is extremely upset.
“We were the ones that first contacted the British embassy in Dubai with concerns after an inmate out there got in touch with us.
“We were told unofficially on Tuesday it was true and the worst was confirmed on Wednesday.
“The inmates we spoke to at the jail are currently waiting to give statements to the police but now they’re in fear for their own lives.”
Mr Bradley Brown, from Dagenham in East London, is understood to have flown alone to Dubai for a holiday where he was staying at the Burj al Arab hotel.
He was arrested on April 6 for alleged assault, intimidating behaviour and using abusive language, it was claimed.
A British embassy spokesman said: “I can confirm the man died in custody and that the embassy is taking the allegations very seriously.
“We are launching an investigation and working with Dubai police.”
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A A Gill has got it absolutely right and who leaps to criticise his remarks about the expats being none too clever? Somebody who demonstrates his lack of greycells by calling himself Kamelchaser. QED.
You're absolutely right Shytehawk. Someone's nom-de-plume is far more important in judging the value of their opinion than what they actually say.
Hence forth I shall be known as.....Professor Kamelchaser.
Everybody will then surely value my opinion as my name will most certainly imply intelligence. How silly of me to previously have thought that my arguments would be taken seriously.
