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Gillian Gibbons pardoned and will be released soon

42 replies

harpsichordcarrier · 03/12/2007 08:41

here

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moondog · 03/12/2007 08:43

About time.
Fucking ridiculous.

moondog · 03/12/2007 08:43

Half their people are starving,the other half killing each other and they are worried about this.
Scandalous.

Nbg · 03/12/2007 08:44

Good.

wannaBe · 03/12/2007 08:49

about time.

should never have come to this.

bet she won't be going back there in a hurry.

And bet others will think twice about going there.

SquonkaClaus · 03/12/2007 08:51

such a bloody shame that this happened to her - on so many different levels.

Glad she's coming home

bossybritches · 03/12/2007 09:54

Bloody FO did bugger all to help -two muslim peers got off their backsides & flew out & talked the talk & job done.

Well done Lord Ahmed & Baroness Warsi-

FluffyMummy123 · 03/12/2007 09:56

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TenLordsaLapin · 03/12/2007 09:57

FO will have been working behind the scenes, no doubt

Good news

FluffyMummy123 · 03/12/2007 09:57

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EricL · 03/12/2007 09:57

Good show.

I think they will have done themselves some serious harm over this - who the hell is going to want to go there now and help them out?

I certainly wouldn't want to be constantly walking on egg-shells for fear of getting executed for nothing.

TenLordsaLapin · 03/12/2007 09:58

what Cod said

FluffyMummy123 · 03/12/2007 09:58

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harpsichordcarrier · 03/12/2007 09:59

bb that simply isn't true, about the FO.
th emuslim peers were to make the release more politically palatable. Sudanese government did not want to be seen to bow to foreign pressure
it is a very delicate situation, and not all is as it seems necessarily

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TenLordsaLapin · 03/12/2007 09:59

why sigh, I was agreeing with you!

pooka · 03/12/2007 09:59

Bet the peers were asked to go by the FO. Of course they've been working behind the scenes.

SSSandy2 · 03/12/2007 10:00

What I found really weird was a member of staff apparently reported her to the ministry of education (BBC I think) and set the whole ball rolling. Couldn't that member of staff have just approached her and said, listen Gillian this is a bit of a sensitive issue here and not really appropriate - and surely then the whole thing could have been fixed up no problem at all. Very strange

TenLordsaLapin · 03/12/2007 10:01

presumably it was a member of staff who didn't like her! must have been malicious

Issy · 03/12/2007 10:02

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themulledsnowmanneredjanitor · 03/12/2007 10:02

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FluffyMummy123 · 03/12/2007 10:02

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SSSandy2 · 03/12/2007 10:04

oh I see janitor, haven't read the whole background, just seems very strange to me

Peachy · 03/12/2007 10:05

Didn't the UN send the epacekeeprs into Darfur this very weekend (according to teletext which is often wrong of course)

Not related then

Seems FO did much the most sensible thing using Muslim peers, sending in a bunch of FO employees would have amde the whole situation worse

EricL · 03/12/2007 10:06

Send in the SAS!

themulledsnowmanneredjanitor · 03/12/2007 10:07

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bossybritches · 03/12/2007 10:10

Well that's what it looked like don't care who brokered it they got the job done!

Agree with Peachy.

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