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Gibraltar apologizes to Madrid for illegal police search in Spain
The Gibraltar Government made public an apology to Spain at the weekend after a Madrid newspaper revealed that two Gibraltar policemen illegally searched a house in Alcaidesa and seized evidence without first informing the Spanish authorities. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThis of course follows on from incidents in which the Spanish Guardia Civil regularly invade Gibraltar's territorial waters and have even pursued people through the streets of Gibraltar firing weapons.
Sep 22nd, 2010 - 08:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0In the latter case, the Guardia officers got themselves arrested. But I don't recall Spain apologising!
To be fair - Spain did apologise.
Sep 22nd, 2010 - 10:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Honest statement by Hoytred.
Sep 23rd, 2010 - 03:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not everything is lost.
And Spain continues to be invasive.
Sep 23rd, 2010 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Recent invasions: Irak and Afganistan.
Sep 23rd, 2010 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For the purpose of toppling repressive regimes. Saddam Hussein and the Taliban.
Sep 23rd, 2010 - 08:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sounds like you lot have got dictatorial totalitarian regimes as well.
Wasn´t Iraq because WMD & 9/11? Wasn´t Saddam a british friend before, actually being a terrible dictator?
Sep 23rd, 2010 - 11:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Isn´t Afganistan a cemetery of fantastic servicemen, without any clear objective? I read your diplomats in the area resigning for that reason. Difficult to understand without “sacking logic”.
I´m afraid that we have oil and natural resources, too.
We are attractive to warmonger countries that present all kind of excuses for invading and sack the wealth.
Not talking about modern Spain, precisely. Whitelock is still alive.
Actually, Hussein was never really a British friend. A U.S. “friend” perhaps. A French friend.
Sep 24th, 2010 - 09:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Afghanistan? We have a stated objective. The elimination of the Taliban as a political and repressive force. The war is difficult because the Taliban like to hide behind ordinary Afghan people. Same sort of cowardly behaviour displayed by Argentina.
No-one's interested in your oil and natural resources. One of our territories seems to have plenty of oil and natural resources. As long as we can make sure that Argentina doesn't steal them. Plenty for the people of our territory to lead happy, wealthy lives.
Save me official statements crap.
Sep 24th, 2010 - 10:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0If you are interested on why your young servicemen is dying in Helmand, dig just a bit deeper on what your diplomat officers think about.
Full available in british media, invader.
Save me you, pisshead.
Sep 24th, 2010 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As you wish,
Sep 24th, 2010 - 09:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The sudden departure of Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, Britain's special envoy to Afghanistan, represents another body blow for a US-led policy that is already shredding at the edges”
Take a look on this man point of view and you will save a lot of idiotic repeated crap...and a lot of lives will be saved too.
True that he said “we are in the wrong side”?
I can find no trace that Sir Sherard ever said “we are in the wrong side“.
Sep 25th, 2010 - 09:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0What he has said is that he does not agree with U.S. policy. This is not unusual. Neither the U.K. nor the U.S. slavishly agree with each other.
I notice a number of reports ”leaked” by French sources unhappy with their president.
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