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This brave New Yorker piece is the sourest bite of realpolitik you’ll ever taste. It’s not just racing that bows to this grim man’s money, it’s the whole world.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/08/the-fugitive-princesses-of-dubai
No doubt a painstakingly researched and well articulated piece – but by God, how disturbing.
With all due respect to Steeplechasing, this is quite common knowledge.
Theres issues with one of his wives and kids that reside in the UK.
But the racing folks, dare not say anything.The subject has indeed been discussed on this forum before. But it’s one that is well worth continuing to highlight, and the New Yorker piece gives probably the most thorough narrative of events that I’ve read.
Thanks for posting Steeplechasing.
Excellent piece but unfortunately what will get done? Have to disagree with you Landafar about this being common knowledge. Yes we in the forum know this and racing knows this but in the wider audience how much of this is known? As the article says, you have money and power you can basically do whatever you like and we as a country will still put economic issues first.
Not sure that “as a country we put economic issues first”.
The electorate voted for brexit!I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysSadly, given his high profile and desire to be accepted by Western society, I fear that this horrific story is the tip of the iceberg both within borders and beyond (Khashogghi).
It was a poorly conceived escape plan and rife with errors. Jaubert who managed an escape himself was not to be trusted. His shadowy past should have been fully investigated. The boat ran out of diesel off the coast of Goa forcing a change of plan – all sounds a bit suspicious to me. Very very poor planning and Latifa’s on boat communications made her easy for her father to find her. What was she up to ?
Sheika Latifa could trust her Finnish martial arts instructor and the plan to funnel half a million dollars via pocket money in cash was well executed however she needed to build up a bigger war chest. Hiding in the Audi spare wheel space under Ikea furniture was another clever idea to pass unnoticed through the border. Underwater scooters were ditched for jet skis – fair enough but a decoy boat should have been set up with a paid double or even the captain himself, who could have used her phone to send a short and convincing pre-recorded message. A small two man submarine 9 metres in length can be picked up for a couple of million dollars. It has a diesel range of 4000 miles and is almost undetectable. The Colombians build their own to secretly convey drugs to larger vessels at night.
She should have waited a few years and had a bigger bankroll for a sub with a paid captain. The decoy boat would have been unnecessary, I put that in as a nice touch – call it poetic licence.She might have not needed the full two million. Planning is everything and it’s not as if she didn’t have time to think this out properly.Gamble, if only Princess Latifa had posted one of her cries for help on this forum it could have all worked out so differently.
Looks like you can pick up a 50-person submarine for only $1.95 million at present if she happens to be reading this…
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Nothing so sad as that that might have been. There was a valiant attempt Marlingford made by one of our very own to rescue princess Latifa from her plight.
He set out confidently under cover of darkness in a small two oared rower from the shingle and sand bay of St Audries. He did make it fifty odd miles along the coast but was soon letting in water due to his large heavy collection of timeform annuals. He didn’t need a flare as his reddish hair was picked up nicely in the light from a passing merchant navy vessel who immediately mounted a rescue.You make a good point that I would be ill-equipped for such a venture alone Gamble, and the thought of getting my Timeform annuals wet fills me with abject horror
Marlingford, I was to have deleted my whimsical post, but as you responded nicely – have left it kicking. I have though edited out the deceptive element of my alternative plan, as raising extra funds would not have been necessary, which I will later explain.
Juniainen the martial arts instructor was a known face and Latifa’s father’s security team would have asked appropriate questions at border control and presumably that is why the driver was picked up quickly after the two ladies were dropped at the shoreline. The driver was not known it was Juniainen who was known and noticed, which rather begs the question why two cars were not used – one as a decoy. The original plan with the boat should have worked but Latifa used Instagram and although she ditched her mobile the report as I remember it, stated she phoned from the boat. Running out of fuel was inexcusable and it is nice when a plan comes together – NOT.
Communication should have been kept to a minimum and no calls should have been made – a burned phone if at all, but any communication from the sea, even from a 3G could have been traced, but if burned, obviously not to anyone known. Jaubert also made an unnecessary call with his daft, covetous request for 300 hundred million.
The possibility of lying low once through the border in a prearranged safe house, or in a bunker or a concealed cellar, until the heat was off was another possibility. The car might have been badly pranged and Latifa’s bloodied clothes left at the shore for a touch of theatrical Stonehouse. John rather spoiled that rouse though, just as Day of the Jackal alerted the dead passport trick.
Subs came a lot cheaper two years ago and I am sure the possibility of the second hand market or hiring one would have been immeasurably cheaper. A manufacturer might have donated one free for the later publicity. Hence no need for any deception to raise extra funds – five hundred thousand would have sufficed. I think a fifty seater would have been comfy but might have drawn attention. Out of interest at least one of the homemade Colombian subs didn’t make the harbour and sunk at sea after embarking at night from remote marshland but to drug barons and cartels out there life comes at a cheaper price – so too to some in the U.A.E..I’m no expert on these things that stray far beyond the sort of “two biscuits with that cappuccino, or three – I know: four!” daily dilemmas I confine myself to but, in order to have a “badly-conceived escape plan,” I’d imagine one needs to find oneself in a position where one needs to escape in the first place?
Tbh, of all the many ladies facing oppression and discrimination on this planet, a Princess wouldn’t ever be top of my sympathy list.
If only the media paid the millions upon millions of those the same level of attention.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"“Tbh, of all the many ladies facing oppression and discrimination on this planet, a Princess wouldn’t ever be top of my sympathy list.”
Quite Chezza,
But she was born a princess.
You just happen to be one.
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