Australians Marcus and Julie Lee safe and sound after Five Years of Hell in Dubai

Dubai hell is over as Aussie businessman lands in Sydney

Jenny Rogers 
The Daily Telegraph
January 20,2014

• Marcus Lee and wife Julie landed at Sydney Airport this morning
• Five-year ordeal finally over following 'traumatic' few days
• Family and friends waited in Arrivals with flags to greet pair
• Couple left financially ruined following ordeal

WITH shouts of delight and a flurry of Australian flags businessman Marcus Lee and his wife Julie were embraced by family and friends at Sydney International Airport this morning after a five year battle that had kept them stuck in the United Arab Emirates.

"It has been what we have dreamed about for five years now," a tired and pale Mr Lee told the waiting media as he stood beside his teary wife, Julie.

"Even down to the last couple of days it has been pretty traumatic."

Mr and Ms Lee arrived with just the clothes on their backs and their luggage from Dubai following a torturous legal battle that has left them financially ruined and traumatised.

Mr Lee was acquitted of fraud three times in the lengthy case brought by Gold Coast developer the Sunland Group over a botched Dubai land deal.

 He spent nine months in a Dubai prison, two of those in solitary confinement.

Mr Lee said he was "caught up in a grubby dispute between a lot of self interested property developers."

He said he owed everything to his lawyer John Sneddon who worked for free for five years.

"He always believed in me and told us we were going to get to this point.

"I have no idea how I will ever repay him."

Mr Lee embraced Mr Sneddon at the arrivals gate.

Mr Sneddon said getting an innocent Australian home was more important than money.
Mr Lee said he will now begin legal proceedings to try to get compensation for the ordeal.

The couple have lost everything, using the $300 000 bond money to repay debts.

Mr Lee's mother Carol McKinley hugged her son joking she was going to rip up his passport.

Mr Lee said he would not warn other Australians not to travel or live in the United Arab Emirates.

"But there are issues and that does happen, it might be one in a hundred but there is that one."

Mr And Ms Lee had been set to leave Dubai on Friday but were prevented by state security officials.

Although Mr Lee believed he had obtained all the required clearance certificates to leave Dubai, the country's state security still had a flag against his name.

Australian ambassador Pablo Kang negotiated with the Dubai foreign ministry to get the couple cleared so they could leave on a later flight.



Mr Sneddon said the bureaucratic bungle could have flared into a diplomatic row if the state's security had not backed down.

Sydney’s Occupied Territories: Laser Jihad or just the typical behavior of the prodigy of Islamic inbreeding ?

 

Update

Plane zapped with laser near Sydney Airport

SMH

April 10, 2011 - 10:19AM

A Jetstar plane descending towards Sydney Airport has been zapped with a laser, police say.

A green-coloured laser was pointed at the aircraft, apparently from Canterbury in Sydney's west, police said.

The incident happened about 7.15pm yesterday, police said.

Police sent vehicles to the area and inquiries are continuing.

A police spokesman was unable to say where the plane had travelled from or how many passengers were on board.

Pointing lasers at an aircraft is illegal and dangerous, with Detective Inspector Michael O'Rourke from Ashfield Local Area

Command saying such action can endanger lives.

 

These Laser attacks upon aircraft are numerous, this is the first case, to my knowledge, that there has actually been an arrest leading to a trial.

Many, many, commercial jet liners and light aircraft are targeted by Lasers emanating from Sydney’s Occupied Territories as they attempt landing and departure from Sydney’s Kingsford Smith International Airport.

The consequences of these bastards actions are obvious to anyone with half a brain,however we are talking about residents of Sydney’s Occupied Territories,Labor’s Multicultural Utopia.

Laser pointer put hundreds in danger, court hears

By Nathan Klein
The Daily Telegraph

April 06, 2010

EVERY passenger on board a Virgin Blue flight could have been killed when a teenager shone a laser into the cockpit, a court heard yesterday.

Police allege Abdul Eid, 18, of Auburn, "endangered the lives" of 134 passengers on a flight to Sydney from Melbourne on Sunday night about 7.30pm.

Less than two hours later, the teenager allegedly blinded crew on a police helicopter that was patrolling in the Auburn area following reports of the earlier incident.

The teenager was located shortly after and charged with illegal use of the laser pointer.

A 16-year-old from Berala, who cannot be named, was also charged with the same offences but released on strict conditional bail.

The incident follows a spate of similar happenings, including one at Bexley just two weeks ago.

A green laser light was directed into the cockpit of a police helicopter. No one was caught and the device was found later in a carpark by police.

In Parramatta Bail Court, Eid was labelled a threat to the general public by the prosecution.

"This offence had the potential to endanger lives. The protection of the community is paramount," the police prosecutor said.

Eid's lawyer said there were a number of people involved in the incident and there was no way to prove it was her client.

But the prosecutor told the court the police helicopter had recorded vision of Eid using the device.

The court registrar branded Eid a "serious risk to the community" before refusing bail.

Eid will reappear in Burwood Local Court via audio visual link tomorrow.

A spokeswoman for Virgin Blue last night confirmed the flight crew had reported the incident and labelled the act as "sheer stupidity".

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Sydney International Airport, 12 "Middle Eastern men assault Female Customs officer

I well remember the Transport Workers Union (TWU) during the previous Howard governments terms of office, holding press conferences at the Sydney International Terminal,Tony Sheldon,if memory serves me correctly,the head of the TWU,looking into the assembled medias TV cameras advising the citizens of Australia that it was only a matter of time (minutes even) before Australians would experience an act of terror at Sydney International Airport due to the Howard governments lax security at Sydney International Airport.

One such case of the TWU alerting the Sydney media to such an imminent catastrophe,was when,what was described by the media as a mentally disabled man, inadvertently accessed a secure area of the terminal, within minutes of this incident taking place,the TWU was joined by not only their adoring media fan club,but surprise,surprise the oppositions shadow minister Robert McClelland, for what I will, loosely call homeland security, ie all things anti terror.

There they were Sheldon and Robert McClelland warning Australians of this close call and demanding everything from the resignation of the Howard Government Minister responsible for National Security, through to free cheese for dead rats in Siberia.

Neither the media or the TWU reported on what happened to the mentally disabled man after he was,I assume was taken into custody and later taken into care by either his family or the relative mental health service providers,there was never a follow up reported on this "poor" mans situation.

The TWU has a very poor record when it comes to security issues at Sydney Airport,their members have been charged and convicted with theft from passenger baggage and using passenger baggage to transport drugs for Union friendly International drug rings.

The TWU and it's members (as is the case of all union members in Australia) are also major Financiers / Bankers / Fundraisers, of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),the present Federal Government of Australia, led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who was elected on November 24 2007.

The attack upon the Female Australian Customs Officer at Sydney Airport,by twelve men of "Middle Eastern appearance" inside the secure Customs area was apparently not thought of as been as serious an incident,as the TWU's and McClelland's "disappearing mentally disabled man" entering a non descript area of the same airport when the Australian Labor Party was in opposition, otherwise they would have had the media out at Sydney International Airport within minutes of the attack taking place wouldn't they ?

I disagree with the Australian Labor Party and their financiers the Transport Workers Union, along with the Customs officers Union, call me crazy but hey I believe we have more to fear from twelve Middle Eastern thugs who are so emboldened by whatever,that they feel they are immune from the restrictions that apply to Australians,that they can enter restricted Royal Australian Customs area's of Sydney International Airport and when challenged and asked to leave they simply vilify and physically assault a Female officer of the Crown,whereupon these twelve brave men ? of Middle Eastern Appearance simply walk away and continue on with their plans unhindered by the AFP or Airport security.

I have said good bye to friends and loved ones at the same entrance to this particular gateway to Customs at Sydney International Airport, there is nothing about the signage that would make anyone think that it was an area open to NON passenger access, I have been inside the same area as a passenger and you simply have no business been there other than as a passenger leaving Australia, so the 'me no speaka da English " defense holds no water at all.

The scary part is that there is NO video footage of the invasion and assault by no less than twelve men of Middle Eastern Appearance.
A man was bashed to death in front of hundreds of passengers at the Domestic terminal some four weeks ago by twenty men who were able to escape by Taxi, before security arrived, there is no video footage of this attack either.

The same weapons used to smash the Domestic terminal victims skull in, were used in the attack upon the Female Royal Australian Customs Officer at the International Terminal, stainless steel bollards used to support the queuing tape.

Sleep tight Australian and International passengers who use Sydney International and indeed all Australian Airports, there has been no further reports of the "mentally disabled man" who so alarmed the TWU, the media and the now Rudd Labor Government, phewwww!!!

Nothing to see here..... move along now ...nothing to see here.

There does seem to be a different set of rules for people awaiting passengers from Middle Eastern arrivals at Sydney Airport, I have seen with my own eyes these people blatantly disregarding all and every security / sign within the arrivals area.

They simply seem to think that the rules of the arrivals terminal, just like every other rule or law in Australia, does not apply to them.

I have been told by Airport staff that their attitude is one of so what we do what we want, try and stop us without a riot taking place by the hoards that they usually bring with them to meet another of their kind arriving.
I have seen them push and shove elderly Australians and children out of their way and dominate seating and eating areas with no regard for common manners and decency, the images you see on TV where they are running in murderous riots over cartoons depicting their infamous Paedophile Pirate Mohammad,are no different than their behaviour when they think they might have to wait an extra minute or two to see some relative or friend emerge through the arrivals exit chute.

But then I am so arrogant and probably Islamophobic and indeed racist, for objecting to this type of Pig Ignorant behaviour by the members of the "Religion of Peace".

Islam can only exist as an Oppressive majority or a disruptive minority.