i know what you're saying ant - and i know that comparitively AD isn't the worst place in the middle east. But even your most rabid right winger on here would be amazed at some of the things that go on, and the whole case of sheik issa bin zayed al-nahyan is simply astonishing.
I find the "manchester thanks you banner" an embarrassment personally. On many levels Libya under gadaffi is/was a more egalitarian place than any of the gulf states. Just find it all a bit hypocritical.
and dingus - that even made me laugh :)