Islamic Sociopaths Inc.: Warning Beware Dubai stay clear

Dream jobs dwindle for Australians in Dubai
Florence Chong
The Australian
May 28, 2009

DUBAI'S dream jobs have evaporated and hopes of making quick riches have been replaced by an air of fear and loathing following the arrest of several Australians this year.

Five months after taking on a job in a large Dubai property group, a Sydney property specialist has returned to Sydney as promises made during the interview disappeared the day he arrived in Dubai. "The project for which I was hired to develop was cancelled due to the credit crunch," said the executive, who declined to be named. "The base salary was $US500,000 ($640,000) a year plus generous bonuses.

Potentially, it was a $US1.4 million package - tax free." The icing on the cake was to be six weeks of annual leave. But two months after taking on the job last October, he said: "The Australian executives in my company were arrested on allegations of corruption. There was a real sense of unease in that place."

Expatriates have been arrested along with local employees on charges of alleged corruption and espionage. "It is quite unbelievable. It is like stuff you see in a James Bond movie," said another Australian executive. Officially, the charges remain unclear. Those who spoke to The Australian said the bursting of Dubai's property bubble had sent companies and authorities searching for someone to blame.
The irony was that nothing happened in Dubai without the signature of the chairman of the company, said one Australian executive who resigned because the company changed his job description on arrival. "An individual had his computer removed from his desk when he went on holidays.
On his return, the company's security guards escorted him out of the building," the executive said. "He believed sensitive information in his computer regarding an offshore investment that has gone sour overseas could be the reason." Stories and circumstances of how expatriates have lost their jobs have painted a grim picture of Dubai. Some of those still employed talk of paranoia and fear of persecution.
The reason? The arrest of fellow Australians, mostly in the property sector, without charges. A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said 17 Australians were currently detained in Dubai. He said five were in prison or detained. Of these five, three had been charged. They faced a variety of charges on a variety of matters.

The situation of the remaining 12 was unclear as no charges had been laid, but their passports had been seized to prevent them from leaving the country, sources said. An official source said the number of Australians getting into trouble with the law in the UAE had risen from 23 cases in 2005-06 to 55 in 2007-08 and still rising. "There is no doubt the number of cases is growing, but then the number of Australians working and living in the UAE is also rising," said the source. He said charges could range from drunkenness, not paying a bar bill to more serious charges such as embezzlement.

The most high-profile arrests are those of two former employees of Dubai-based Nakheel, Australians Matt Joyce and Marcus Lee, detained without charges since January. They are alleged to be involved in bribery over the sale of the Waterfront site, now controlled by the Queensland-based Sunland. While these cases are pending, a small number in senior management is concerned about phone tapping and monitoring of their emails, according to industry sources. Several persons who lost their jobs recently spoke to The Australian on an anonymous basis, citing concerns of inadvertently implicating former colleagues still in Dubai.

One expatriate said that in at least one instance, the employer held a person "hostage" by refusing to return his passport. The passport was finally returned after the intervention of his embassy. "Holding on to passports is apparently a common tactic in disputes over severance payments," said one executive. "I was not paid out when I left, but I was not about to argue with them.
I just wanted my passport back to jump on the first plane out." There are now about 20,000 Australians working in Dubai, lured by wonderful job descriptions and huge salary packages. As jobs dry up, the Gulf's largest investment bank EGF Hermes says Dubai's population will shrink by 17 per cent this year. During the boom years, Dubai's population grew by about 20 per cent a year, said Keith Parker, an expatriate living in Dubai.

The number of employees in the worst-affected sectors of construction, real estate and financial services will drop by 30 per cent this year, according to EGF Hermes. Reports said 54,684 residency visas were cancelled in January alone. Most of those affected, however, are workers from South Asia.
Those who spoke to The Australian said when a person terminated his contract, he or she would be banned from taking a position with another company in Dubai. These people also face financial hardships such as locked-in rental payments and relocation costs. A source said accommodation costs are much higher in Dubai than major capital cities such as London or Sydney.

Gee say it ain't so! the Muslims actually lied and deceived the infidels ,who would have thought that possible ?
The price you pay for dealing with the Devil.

Rudd pays Dead people

Dead people and expats receiving stimulus package as well

EXCLUSIVE by Steve Lewis
The Daily Telegraph
May 28, 2009 12:00am

THE Rudd Government has wasted $40 million by paying the $900 tax bonus to 16,000 dead people and 27,000 expats living overseas.

The revelations will rock the Government's efforts to sell its $42 billion stimulus package as a nation-building scheme.

And the Australian Tax Office said the level of payments to the dead is likely to go beyond the $14 million so far issued to deceased estates.

The $40 million in wasted payments was revealed by the tax office in confidential documents that confirmed prisoners received the $900 payment.

As well, more than $11 million was spent on "marketing" the cash splash - which has seen about $8 billion paid to 8.7 million people.

Despite racking up more than $300 billion in debt, the Government is sending about $25 million in bonus payments to people living overseas.

Even non-Australians who worked here for at least six months - but then disappeared off shore - have received the cash.

The British and New Zealand economies will benefit the most - with expats living in these countries accounting for 40 per cent of the payments.

Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull will seize on the embarrassing revelations to bolster his claim the Government's $42 billion stimulus package was badly targeted.

Mr Turnbull - estimated to have a personal fortune of $178 million yesterday - called on the Government to "come clean" on how it planned to repay $315 billion in debt.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan trumpeted the $900 cash bonus - paid during April and May - as a much-needed shot in the arm for the economy.

The tax office has revealed that 15,934 tax bonus payments have been made to deceased estates so far.

The numbers of dead people receiving the bonus could rise sharply, with 47,111 deceased estates lodging a tax return for the eligible period.

The tax office also admits it had no idea where the payment to dead people actually ends up.

"It is the role of the executor in administering the proceeds of a deceased estate to determine how the tax bonus payment will be distributed to beneficiaries," the ATO said.

The tax office was also unable to outline how many prisoners had received the cash bonus, but confirmed "some" inmates would receive the payment.

It had much better luck in determining how many expats would receive the bonus.

This will include 7305 people who will receive a cheque mailed to an overseas address, while 18,000 will receive the payment via their bank account.

The Australian Labor Party, has since its inception, recruited Dead people to vote for it at all three levels of government,now we know how they do it.

Kim Jong Ill,Hillary & Blix

How much safer the world is now that we have a self described "community organizer" in charge of the USA.

Islams finest,Bilal and Mohammed Skaf,gang rapists found with phones on cells

Phones found in cells of gang rapists Bilal and Mohammed Skaf

LiveNews | Richard Maxton

Mobile phones have been found in the prison cells of notorious gang rapists Bilal and Mohammed Skaf, raising questions about security at Goulburn jail.

Muslim Gang Rapists, Bilal & Mohammed Skaf.

Acting on intelligence, guards at Goulburn Correctional Facility's maximum security division searched the pair's cell on Tuesday.

"During the search they found hidden in the bottom of a cabinet, underneath a steel plate which was riveted to the cabinet frame, two mobile phones," a Department of Corrective Services spokesman said.

The brothers were strip-searched then split up after the breach was discovered, with Bilal, 26, placed in isolation at Goulburn while Mohammed, 25, was tranferred to Lithgow jail.

Bilal Skaf was found guilty of leading multiple pack rapes in Sydney in the leadup to the 2000 Olympics, summoning his friends by mobile phone for the attacks.

His brother Mohammed was found guilty for his part in four rapes, luring young women into the attacks, one of which lasted over six hours.

A major investigation is reportedly underway into how the two phones found their way into the Skafs' cell, with video footage set to be scrutinized.

Officers rostered in the brothers' wing will also be interviewed, a senior officer at Goulburn said.

While the Skaf brothers have had recent visitors, the prisoners were searched before and after the visits.

It is not the first security infraction involving the brothers. In 2002 the Skaf's mother, Baria, was banned from visiting all NSW jails after being caught on video trying to smuggle letters from Bilal to his fiance containing sketches of his cell and exercise yard.

In September of the same year the Skaf's father, Mustapha, was accused of trying to bribe security guards to let him talk to his son on the phone.

In August 2002 Bilal was sentenced to 55 years in jail, with Crown Prosecutor, Margaret Cunneen, said Skaf's actions, described as ethnically motivate hate crimes, had left a stain on the psyche of the citizens of NSW.

Then Premier Bob Carr said he was happy to see the "sort of sentence the community expects."

In October of the same year Judge Michael Finane described Mohammed as "a vicious, cowardly bully" before sentencing him to 32 years.

Bilal is now due to be released in 2031, while Mohammed can't apply for parole until 2018 after the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal allowed minor reductions in their sentences.

• 'Out of touch': Outrage over Skaf brothers' sentence cuts
• Where to now for the brothers Skaf?
• New pack-rape claims emerge against Skaf brothers
• Serial rapist questioned over child sex

Update:

How the evil Skaf brothers obtained mobile phones

By Rhett Watson and Kara Lawrence
The Daily Telegraph
May 29, 2009 12:00am

THE gang rapist Skaf brothers prised apart a steel cabinet to hide two mobile phones in their maximum security jail cell.

The details of the pair's underhanded concealment methods emerged last night as prison authorities remained baffled as to how two of the country's most notorious criminals smuggled phones into Goulburn prison.

One option being considered is that the phones were thrown over the prison walls, which Corrective Services senior officer Don Rodgers admitted could occur.

The phones' discovery last night led Commissioner Ron Woodham to vow that Bilal, 27, and Mohammed, 26, will never see each other again while they are behind bars.

Gallery and video: Come inside Goulburn's Supermax prison

"No. Never. They'll be in different jails and they'll never be together again," he said.

Both were strip-searched after the phones were found and moved into segregation where they will stay for two to three months until the investigation is complete.

Mohammed was moved to Lithgow jail and Bilal will remain in Goulburn jail's segregation section. One of the phones had a SIM card, making it live. There was no reason to believe it had not been used.

Prison investigators will use the SIM card from the Skafs' phone to work out how many calls were made, to whom and, possible, how long it has been in the jail.

There was speculation in Corrective Services that the calls would be more of a personal nature than criminal.

Prison officers only became aware of the smuggled contraband after a tip-off led to a raid on several cells on Tuesday morning.

Inside Goulburn Supermax

The brothers, who shared a cell, had managed to drill out the rivets on a cabinet which has a tubular steel frame and sheet metal covering it.

They had popped one of the sheets off the bottom of the cabinet, hidden the phones on the frame and then placed the sheet metal skin back over it.

"After that we've ramped up the searches in the jail and pulled apart every piece of furniture in all the cells," Mr Woodham said.

"We had a special team brought down from Sydney to get involved and we had about 80 to 90 officers from different areas sent in to do the search."

While Prisons Minister John Robertson yesterday said the discovery of the phones showed the "system actually works", the State Government was criticised that two notorious criminals, guilty of the worst pack rapes in NSW, were able to get phones in jail.

Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell said that the Government had a lot of explaining to do.

"What we know is they've been found in one of the most secure prisons in this state and they are owned, apparently, by two of the state's most notorious rapists," he said.

"When courts send serial rapists like the Skaf brothers to jail . . . there is meant to be punishment. The public does not expect them to have access to mobile phones."

The Government hopes to reduce the problems with mobile phone smuggling by creating jamming systems at its jails.

Mr Robertson said he hoped to receive approval from the Federal Government to trial a system at Lithgow jail. He also said the system that allows siblings to stay in the same cells was also being reviewed.

Southwest region corrective services assistant commissioner John Dunthorne said the Skafs were together because: "It's very hard to place any Skaf in any jail and certainly not with any other inmate. Nobody wants a bar of them."