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Working For The Sultan Qaboos Can Seriously Damage Your Wealth - Being A Horse Owned By Him Will Definitely Damage Your Health!
HOW CAN A SELF CONFESSED HOMOSEXUAL PAEDOPHILE BE THE LEADER OF A MUSLIM COUNTRY SURELY THIS IS AGAINST ISLAM ?
THE MAN RESPONSIBLE TAKES AN AWARD FROM THE QUEEN IT SHOWS THAT POLITICS COME BEFORE ANIMALS.
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The Daily Journal Of Rick Dale - Head of Horseracing in Oman.
DAILY JOURNAL OF EX-RICK DALE HEAD OF HORSERACING IN OMAN
I HAVE DECIDED DUE TO COMMENTS I FIND UNPROFESSIONAL FROM SENIOR STAFF HERE AT THE ROYAL COURT OF AFFAIRS TO START A DAILY JOURNAL TO PROTECT MYSELF AND AS A RECORD OF THE ABUSE I AM RECEIVING FOR BEING EUROPEAN.
17-6-2007 COMMENT BY SALIM ALMAHROOQY BRITISH AND AMERICANS SHOULD GET OUT OF IRAQ AS WE ARE STEALING THE OIL AND GIVING FOOD ON TOP AND WEAPONS UNDERNEATH WHATEVER THAT MEANS.
LATER THE SAME DAY SALIM AGAIN SAYS WHY ARE THERE 18 CHURCHES IN OMAN NO OMANIES ARE CHRISTIANS?
I FIND IT VERY STRANGE HOW THE ABUSE ONLY BEGAN AFTER I SIGNED MY CONTRACT AFTER THE 3 MONTH PROBATIONARY PERIOD.
18-6-2006 I HAVE AGAIN TODAY SPOKE TO COL ABDI ABOUT THE STATE OF SOME OF THE HORSES HERE AND AT SAFANAT I GOT THE SAME BLANK LOOK IF HORSES WERE LIKE THIS AT HOME THEY WOULD HAVE THE RSPCA THERE AND BE EUTHANIZED. I FIND IT AMAZING THEY PAY VAST AMOUNTS OF MONEY FOR THESE HORSES AND THEN DON’T CARE FOR THEM PROPERLY.
CONSIDERING THESE ARE THE SULTANS HORSES AND ARE KEPT AT WHAT COL ABDI DESCRIBES AT HIS 5 STAR HOTEL FOR HORSES I’M GLAD I’M NOT A PAYING GUEST.
THE REASON WHY THE HORSES ARE LEFT TO EAT THERE BEDDING AND DIE IS AGAIN A SAD SCENARIO BUT SADLY TYPICAL OF THIS PLACE WHEN HORSES ARE DEAD THEY CAN THEN BE REPLACED THIS MEANS A TRIP TO EUROPE OR AS IN A RECENT TRIP TO ARGENTINA TO BUY POLO PONIES SO THE PERSON WHO’S SECTION IT IS GETS A JOLLY (FREE TRIP) ALL EXPENSES PAID AND A KICK BACK FROM THE VENDOR A MINIMUM I AM TOLD OF TEN PERCENT (THE RACEHORSE TRAINER JULIAN SMARTS NICKNAME FOR COL ABDI IS THE KICK BACK KID) THERE IS ALSO A PART OF THE STABLE WHICH I SHALL TRY TO TAKE PICTURES OF CALLED THE KILLING FIELDS WHERE HORSES ARE SENT TO DIE AND GIVEN THE BARE MINIMUM TO LIVE.
IN A RECENT INCIDENT AT THE STUD IN SALALAH THE PEOPLE THERE WANTED 3 DAYS OFF SO THEY PUT 3 DAYS FEED INTO THE BOXES FOR THE HORSES OF COURSE ANY IDIOT WOULD KNOW A HORSE IS A GRAZING ANIMAL AND IF FOOD IS THERE IT WILL GRAZE TILL ITS ALL BEEN EATEN. BESIDES THIS IT CAUSED LOTS OF COLIC’S THIS IS TYPICAL OF THE MISMANAGEMENT WE EUROPEANS ARE SENT TO SORT OUT HOWEVER THIS IS NOT THE CASE THE EUROPEAN IS USED AS A SCAPEGOAT TO DIWAN (ROYAL COURT OF AFFAIRS) AS WE ARE EXPENDABLE THEY CAN HARDLY GET RID OF THE LOCAL BOYS THEY CAN’T EVEN SACK THEM FOR MISCONDUCT OR LAZINESS THAT’S WHY THE HORSES ARE IN SUCH A POOR STATE AS WELL AS THE REASONS I MENTIONED EARLIER SO THERE IS NO INCENTIVE TO LEARN OR WORK HARD AS THEY ARE NOT REWARDED FOR THIS ITS WHO YOU ARE A RELATIVE TO AS TO ANY PROMOTION OR PAY RISES NOT THE QUALITY OF YOUR WORK THAT COUNTS.
THE ONLY THING I HAVE FOUND SO FAR OMANIES DO WELL IS DRINK COFFEE, TEA AND READ THE NEWS PAPER ALL OF WHICH THEY DON’T PAY FOR IN OUR SMALL OFFICE WE HAVE 4 TEA BOYS.
18-6-2007 THE VEHICLE I WAS GIVEN A TOYOTA AVALON WHICH I USED TO RESCUE 3 OMANI WOMAN AND A BABY IN THE RECENT STORM GONU AND WAS HIT BY A TREE IN THE STORM SCRATCHING IT AND PUTTING A SMALL DINT IN IT AND BENDING THE ARIAL BESIDES REEKING INSIDE FROM THE WATER AND THE ENGINE NOT WORKING TO WELL (WHICH IN THE END I TOOK TO TOYOTA AND PAID OUT OF MY OWN POCKET TO HAVE FIXED AS IT’S THE ONLY MEANS OF TRANSPORT I HAVE) EITHER FROM THE WATER I FIND MYSELF BEING RIDICULED WHEN I ASKED TO HAVE IT SORTED OUT AND FIXED AND BEING TREATED LIKE SOME SORT OF VANDAL THE REASON FOR THIS OF COURSE IT MEANS SOMEBODY HAS TO DO SOME WORK GOD FORBID.
I CERTAINLY FEEL A HOSTILITY TOWARDS ME I’D LIKE TO THINK ITS ME BEING PARANOID BUT HOWEVER WHEN IN THE COMPANY OF COL ABDI AND SALIM M (WHO BOTH SPEAK PERFECT ENGLISH) THEY NOW TALK IN ARABIC WHICH IS STRANGE (AS THEY NEVER USE TO IN MY PRESENCE BEFORE) I CAN STILL MAKE OUT MY NAME IN THE CONVERSATION WHICH IS ALSO VERY VERY ANNOYING AND UPSETTING AS THERE IS NO NEED FOR IT UNLESS THERE IS SOMETHING GOING ON AS I AM NOT A PARANOID TYPE OF PERSON. I AM NOT LIKE FRENCH FRANK (WHO HAS JUST LEFT AFTER HIS 6 MONTHS CONTRACT AND HAS BEEN GIVEN A NEW CONTRACT TO RETURN IN NOVEMBER) HE HAD A 3 PAGE LETTER OF COMPLAINT FOLLOW HIM BACK FROM SALALAH (THE ROYAL STUD) AND HE WAS ONLY THERE A DAY (AS I BELIEVE HE LAID INTO THEM OVER THE DISGUSTING CONDITION THE HORSES WERE IN) AFTER THE SEVERAL VERBAL WARNINGS HE HAD HE GOT FOR DOING THE SAME HERE AT THE ROYAL STABLES. SO HE RECEIVED A WRITTEN ONE FROM THE DIRECTOR GENERAL FAISAL I HAVEN’T HAD A WRITTEN OR VERBAL WARNING SO I CAN’T SEEM TO HAVE DONE ANYTHING WRONG TO BE TREATED IN THIS MANNER.
20/6/2007 THANK GOD THIS WEEK IS OVER. I ASKED SALIM IF HE WOULD LIKE TO COME TO THE ROYAL FLIGHT CLUB FOR THE WEDNESDAY EVENING BARBECUE AS MY GUEST SO I COULD CLEAR THE AIR AND MAKE FOR A BETTER WORKING ENVIRONMENT HE REFUSED NOT EVEN GIVING AN EXCUSE.
23/6/2007 MY TRIP TO RIYADH SAUDI ARABIA WITH LT COL RAMZI AS MY TRAVELLING COMPANION ( A WELL KNOWN ALCOHOLIC AND WELL KNOWN FOR BEING RATHER ABUSIVE WHEN DRUNK BUT GETS AWAY WITH IT AS HIS FATHER WAS KILLED WHEN THE SULTAN TOOK OVER IN THE UPRISING AGAINST HIS FATHER) WELL THE TICKETS ARE NOT AS MY CONTRACT CLEARLY STATES THEY ARE BUSINESS CLASS AND NOT 1 ST CLASS AS MY CONTRACT STATES ANOTHER DELIBERATE BREACH OF MY CONTRACT ALSO THERE IS NO MONEY TO TRAVEL WITH SO I WILL BE USING MINE.
ARRIVE IN SAUDI ARABIA AFTER LONG TIRING TRIP LT COL RAMZI THE WORSE FOR WARE AND NO ONE TO PICK UP AS SALIM ARRANGED AND THE MOBILE PHONE NUMBER HE GAVE US FOR THE CONTACT IS NOT WORKING SO I PAY THE 65 SAUDI RIAL TO GET US TO THE HOTEL.
HARD TO DESCRIBE THIS PLACE EXCEPT ITS VERY DANGEROUS FOR EUROPEANS IT CAN’T BE TO GOOD FOR THE LOCALS EITHER.
25/6/2007 RETURN TO MUSCAT NO ONE THERE TO MEET US AT THE AIRPORT RAMZI AGAIN DRUNK (NOT A NICE DRUNK EITHER ABUSIVE) I AGAIN PAY THE TAXI TO THE ROYAL CAVALRY GLAD THAT’S OVER.
26/6/2007 TRY TO TALK TO COL ABDI BUT HE IS TO BUSY GETTING READY FOR HIS JOLLY (TRIP TO EUROPE) TO EUROPE.
AGAIN I TRY TO FIND OUT WHERE THE 1ST CLASS TICKETS FOR MY FAMILY ARE BUT I’M GREETED WITH THE SAME SILLY SMILE AND ANSWER OF LATER LATER THE TICKETS ARE A MONTH PLUS OVER DUE AND ANOTHER BREACH OF MY CONTRACT THINGS ARE NOT GETTING ANY BETTER.
27TH WELL ANOTHER WEEK OVER AND THINGS ARE NOT GETTING ANY BETTER I HAVE NOT HAD MY 300 RIAL TRAVELLING ALLOWANCE OR MY EXPENSES FOR THE TAXIES I PAID FOR.
1/7/2007
I WAS CALLED TO DIRECTOR GENERAL FAISALS OFFICE AND SURPRISE SURPRISE I WAS TOLD MY CONTRACT WAS TERMINATED FOR BRINGING INTO THE COUNTRY WHAT CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A FEMALE MASSAGERS (VIBRATORS) WHICH I BROUGHT INTO THE COUNTRY IN APRIL 2007 AND PAID I BROUGHT THIS LOT (THE SECOND LOT I BROUGHT IN) AS GIFTS FOR SEVERAL OF THE SENIOR OFFICERS WHO ASKED THEM TO GET THEM FOR THEM ITS STRANGE DON’T YOU THINK THAT THEY CAN TERMINATE MY CONTRACT FOR THIS. BEFORE BRINGING THE VIBRATORS INTO THE COUNTRY I CHECKED THE ROYAL OMANI POLICE WEBSITE AND THE CUSTOMS WEBSITE AS I CHECKED TO MAKE SURE I WAS NOT BREACHING ANY OF THE BACKWARD LAWS EITHER ISLAMIC OR OTHERWISE OF THIS COUNTRY AS THE BOOK WE ARE GIVEN BY CHARLES KENDAL STATES QUITE CLEARLY ANY PORNOGRAPHIC DVD’S OR MAGAZINES ( AND I HAD ALREADY GIVEN 6 TO SEVERAL PEOPLE IN THE OFFICE SO IF THEY WERE ILLEGAL WHY DIDN’T THEY TELL ME AS THEY WERE SENIOR OFFICERS 2 OF WHICH WERE FULL CAPTAINS ?) WILL BE CONFISCATED (NOTHING ABOUT TERMINATION OF CONTRACT) THE MOST AMAZING THING ABOUT THE TERMINATION OF MY CONTRACT IS THAT SINCE THIS INCIDENT (BRINGING IN THE VIBRATORS) WAS UNDER THE 3 MONTH PROBATIONARY PERIOD THEY COULD HAVE QUITE EASILY SAID TO ME AT THE TIME WE ARE TERMINATING YOUR CONTRACT THIS THEREFORE IT GOES TO SHOW THAT I WAS NOT PARANOID IN THE WAY I WAS BEING TREATED AS MY CONTRACT HAD BEEN SIGNED BY THE SAME MINISTER. THE TERMINATION OF 15 DAYS AGAIN BREACHES MY CONTRACT AND AS I HAVE SERVED 5 MONTHS I WILL LOSE MY ENTITLEMENT TO MY HOLIDAY MONEY AND FLIGHTS (WHICH I HAD ALREADY BOOKED AND ARE NONE REFUNDABLE FOR MY HOLIDAY IN SEPTEMBER) I NOW HAVE TO SUFFER 15 DAYS OF BEING TREATED IN A WHAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS LIKE BEING SOME ONE WITH A CONTAGIOUS DISEASE AS IT WON’T BE GOOD FOR ANYONE TO BE SEEN WITH ME OR BE AMICABLE TO ME. AS WELL AS BEING IGNORED I HAD ONLY JUST REPLACED ALL THE ARTICLES IN THE HOUSE FROM THE CYCLONE GONU AND HAVE NO CHANCE OF SHIPPING THIS FURNITURE OR ITEMS HOME DUE TO THE COST AND TIME I HAVE LEFT AS THEY TAKE FOREVER TO DO A SIMPLE TASK AND I DOUBT VERY MUCH I WILL RECEIVE THE MONEY I WAS PROMISED FOR REPLACING THE ITEMS ALL THE RECEIPTS WERE GIVEN TO THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT FOR REIMBURSEMENT.
HOWEVER THE WAY MY CONTRACT HAS BEEN TERMINATED IS CLEARLY IN BREACH AS THE CONSTRUCTIVE METHOD THEY TRIED DID NOT WORK SO THEY RESORTED TO THIS AS THERE WAS NO FAILINGS IN MY WORK WHAT SO EVER AS MY WORK WAS EXEMPLARY ESPECIALLY UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES I HAVE HAD TO ENDURE CHARLES KENDAL WERE AT NO TIME HELPFUL TO ME AT ANYTIME WHEN I ASKED THEM FOR ASSISTANCE VIA EMAIL.
THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE HAS COST ME A LOT OF MONEY AND I SHALL HAVE TO TRY AND GET IT BACK SOME HOW THROUGH THE COURTS ON MY RETURN HOME I AM HAVING TO LEAVE BEHIND A HOUSE FULL OF NEW ELECTRICAL GOODS AND FURNITURE AS I DON’T HAVE ANYWHERE TO SELL IT NOR TIME TO AND THE COST OF SHIPPING IS OUT OF THE QUESTION AS WHAT WOULD I DO WITH IT IN THE UK.
THE FINAL INDIGNITY TODAY WAS I TRIED TO PUT PETROL IN THE CAR AND IT WAS REFUSED EVEN THOUGH MY CONTRACT STILL HAS 2 WEEKS TO RUN.
I HOPE TO GOD I GET OUT OF HERE IN ONE PIECE AND BACK TO MY FAMILY AGAIN I ASKED IF I COULD GO RIGHT NOW AND PAY FOR MY OWN TICKET BUT WAS REFUSED I AM BASICALLY A PRISONER AS I CANNOT LEAVE THE COUNTRY WITHOUT MY PASSPORT AND A LETTER FROM THEM IT IS TO SAY THE LEAST VERY STRESSFUL AND MY FAMILY ARE VERY VERY WORRIED WHEN WILL THIS NIGHTMARE BE OVER I HAVEN’T SEEN MY CHILDREN IN NEARLY 5 MONTHS EVEN PRISONERS GET VISITS.
2/7/2007 SALIM TODAY SAID THAT THE BRITISH SOLDIERS IN IRAQ ARE THERE ONLY TO KILL CHILDREN HE SAID THIS IN FRONT OF A PACKED OFFICE IN FRONT OF MARCO THE FRENCH FARRIER. WHAT CHANCE DID I HAVE AS AN EMPLOYEE WHEN THE 2ND MAN IN CHARGE HAS THIS ATTITUDE ? I ASKED HIM IF HE REALLY BELIEVED THAT AND HE DID HE WAS NOT JOKING HE SAID ARE SOLDIERS ARE FIGHTING AND KILLING CHILDREN.
4/7/2007 ITS 4 AM I HAVE JUST WOKE IT ALL SEEMS A NIGHTMARE I REACHED ACROSS THE BED HOPING TO FEEL MY WIFE THERE BUT SADLY THE NIGHTMARE IS A REALITY AND NOT A NIGHTMARE AND ANOTHER DAY OF HELL AWAITS.
I’VE JUST TURNED THE TV ON TO BBC WORLD NEWS AND ITS QUITE SURREAL ALTHOUGH MY SITUATION IS NOT AS BAD AS ALAN JOHNSTON HE HAS JUST BEEN RELEASED FROM CAPTIVITY I’M NOT SAYING MY CAPTIVITY IS THE SAME AS HIS BUT I DO HAVE AN APATHY WITH HIM AS I AM A PRISONER IN ALL BUT NAME AS I CAN’T LEAVE THE COUNTRY AS THEY WILL NOT GIVE ME THE NO OBJECTION LETTER I CANNOT GET MY HEAD ROUND THIS WHY DO THEY WANT TO KEEP ME HERE IF THEY DO NOT WANT ME (I HAVE HEARD OF MANY CASES WHERE PEOPLE ARE REMOVED WITHIN 24 HOURS FOR EXAMPLE THERE WAS A TRAINER HERE IN THE CAVALRY SEVERAL YEARS AGO CALLED BUCKLEY WHO WAS REMOVED WITHIN 24 HOURS) SO WHY AM I BEING KEPT AGAINST MY WILL THE BRITISH EMBASSY HAVE BEEN THERE NORMAL CIVIL SERVANT SELF AND DON’T WANT TO GET INVOLVED AND SENT ME AN EMAIL WITH A LIST OF SOLICITORS WHICH HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO POWER AGAINST THE ROYAL COURT OF AFFAIRS WHO ARE A LAW UNTO THEMSELVES AS THEY MAKE THE LAWS UP AS THEY GO ALONG.
I WON’T GIVE THE OMANIES THE SATISFACTION OF SEEING ANY WEAKNESS AS THAT IS WHAT THEY SEEM TO ENJOY LIKE THE HORSES THEY GET A POWER TRIP FROM BREAKING THERE SPIRIT THEY WON’T BREAK MINE I KNOW THIS NIGHTMARE CANT GO ON FOREVER AND IF I DON’T SHOW ANY WEAKNESS THEN IT MIGHT COME TO A QUICKER END I CAN ONLY HOPE MY NIGHTMARE WILL BE OVER SOON.
I HAVE JUST FINISHED ANOTHER STRESSFUL DAY AND TO TOP IT OFF I HAVE BEEN TOLD MY BOXES WHICH WERE TO BE RETURNED TO THE UK TODAY HAVE BEEN HELD AND MY AIRLINE TICKET CANCELLED BUT THAT’S NOT THE BIG KICKER I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED TO THE MINISTERS OFFICE AT 8.30 AM ON SATURDAY MORNING THE 7TH MY TICKET WAS FOR THE 8TH NO ONE WILL TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON (MORE MIND GAMES) TO SAY THIS IS WORRYING IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT THE BRITISH EMBASSY HAVE BEEN THERE NORMAL JOBS WORTH’S SELVES AND HAVE GIVEN ME A LIST OF SOLICITORS SOMETHING A BLOODY IDIOT COULD HAVE DONE ITS QUITE OBVIOUS WITH BY THERE ATTITUDE THEY DON’T WANT TO GET INVOLVED I JUST WANT TO GET OUT OF HERE IN ONE PIECE TO MY FAMILY BUT WITHOUT THE NO OBJECTION LETTER I CAN’T LEAVE THE COUNTRY AND I REFUSE POINT BLANK TO SIGN A LETTER PUT IN FRONT OF ME IN ARABIC WHEN THEY HAVE 2 FULL TIME TRANSLATORS IN THE OFFICE THEY MUST THINK I AM TOTALLY STUPID. THEY MADE ME WRITE ONE LETTER IN ENGLISH WHICH I PRINTED A COPY OFF FOR MYSELF AND KEPT.
6/7/2007 WELL ANOTHER SLEEPLESS NIGHT WORRYING ABOUT SATURDAY I HAVEN’T HAD A DRINK IN OVER A YEAR NOW BUT MY GOD I FEEL LIKE A STRONG ONE BUT THAT WOULD BE KIND OF LETTING THEM WIN. ONE THING MADE ME THINK WHEN I WAS IN COL ABDIES OFFICE ON WEDNESDAY HE KEPT MENTIONING HOW I AM NOT A PRISONER WHICH MADE ME THINK CHARLES KENDAL HAVE BEEN SPEAKING TO THEM AS IT WAS MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES IF I’M NOT A PRISONER HOW COME I CAN’T LEAVE THE COUNTRY I TOLD THEM I AM WILLING TO PAY FOR MY OWN TICKET I JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY GET OUT OF KEEPING ME HERE ?
I HAVE AGAIN EVERY DAY EMAILED CHARLES KENDAL WITH EITHER NO RESPONSE OR VERY LITTLE MY WIFE PHONES THEM SEVERAL TIMES DAILEY THEY PROMISE TO RETURN HER PHONE CALLS BUT NEVER DO I SUPPOSE THEY JUST DON’T WANT TO UPSET THERE GRAVY TRAIN AND I AM OF NO VALUE TO THEM WHATSOEVER.
7/7/2007 WELL THE MEETING WITH THE MINISTER WAS CANCELLED AT THE LAST MINUTE AND I WAS TAKEN BY FAISAL, SALIM AND THE TRANSLATOR HAJ AT GUN POINT TO COL ABDIES HOUSE WHERE HE IS CONVALESCING FROM HIS HERNIA OPERATION SURPRISE SURPRISE MY CONFIDENTIAL EMAILS WHICH I HAD SENT TO CHARLES KENDAL WERE ON THE TABLE THIS SHOWS WHERE CHARLES KENDAL’S LOYALTIES LIE.
AFTER WHAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS A HEATED DISCUSSION (4 AGAINST 1 AND WITH A GUN TO MY HEAD) OVER PICTURES OF THE STATE OF HORSES IN THE ROYAL CAVALRIES’ CARE IN AN EMAIL WHICH THEY HAD SENT TO THEM FROM EMIRATES RACING I WAS FORCED TO SEND A RETRACTION (OR GET SHOT) TO EVERYONE IN MY EMAIL ADDRESS BOOK OR QUITE PLAINLY I WOULD NOT BE LEAVING THE COUNTRY ANYTIME SOON. WHEN WILL THIS NIGHTMARE END I CANNOT BELIEVE BERNADETTE OF CHARLES KENDAL WOULD PUT MY LIBERTY AT RISK AND IT SEEMS THE ONLY RECOURSE NOW I WILL HAVE WILL BE TO SUE CHARLES KENDAL AND THE SULTAN OF OMAN. I AM SO TIRED I FEEL AS THOUGH I HAVEN’T SLEPT FOR A WEEK I HAVE NOWHERE TO TURN (AS THE BRITISH EMBASSY ARE USELESS) AND JUST HAVE TO PLAY IT BY THERE RULES ITS LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF A FILM A KILO OF HEROIN WILL TURN UP NEXT IN THE HOUSE THAT’S HOW IT FEELS.
I JUST WANT TO GO HOME AND BE WITH MY FAMILY I AGAIN OFFERED TO PAY FOR MY TICKET AND GET ON THE 3.55 PM TO HEATHROW BUT AGAIN I WAS REFUSED. THE WORST THING IN ALL THIS IS I HAVE HAD TO PLAY THERE LITTLE GAME AND BELITTLE MYSELF.
THIS WILL BE THE LAST ENTRY AS IM GOING TO EMAIL MY JOURNAL TO MY WIFE FOR SAFE KEEPING AND DELETE IT FROM MY LAPTOP FOR OBVIOUS REASONS
Legal evidence of the cruelty and lies.
The Head of the Royal Cavalry Colonel Abdulrazak & Salim Al-Mahrooqi tried to explain away the condition of the horses on the tropical storm Gonu which occurred in June. This is evidence that proves they are not only cruel but also liars.
The dates on my letter to Sultan Qaboos (the letter never got to Sultan Qaboos, it was intercepted by the Colonel) pre-dates the storm, as do my memos which I also passed to Sultan Qabooses lawyers in London.
Also, why would you put horses you are trying to save in a paddock in 45 degree heat and no water? Unless you wanted to kill them.
The food they are eating is what I use to sneak in there of an afternoon when people were sleeping.
If you want to complain, why not email the Embassy and tell them your thoughts....
theembassy@omanembassy.org.uk
NB: One can only come to the conclusion, the Royal Court of Affairs condone the Royal Cavalry actions, as these people still have their jobs.
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Brigadier Timothy Landon: The extraordinary life of the white sultan. SULTAN QABOOES RIGHT HAND MAN.
Brigadier Timothy Landon was no ordinary military man. For nearly 40 years he brokered oil and arms deals for one of the most powerful rulers in the Middle East, amassing a £700m fortune in almost total secrecy. The life and death of a latter-day Lawrence of Arabia
Published: 12 July 2007
Nestling in the folds of the Hampshire hills, the hamlet of Faccombe sits in splendid isolation. Cab drivers working just five miles away are not aware of it; bar staff in the Marco Pierre White restaurant up the road can barely pronounce its name. A sense of eerie solitude exudes from the village's quaint pond-side pub, clipped lawns and carefully-tended lanes.Until last week, the whole of Faccombe was owned by just one man. He was known locally as Timothy Landon, but in the Middle East, where he spent much of his adult life, they called him the White Sultan. Brigadier Landon, to use his proper title, was one of the richest and most secretive men in Britain, and the inhabitants of his Arcadian kingdom were told never to discuss his affairs.On Friday, Landon died, after a protracted battle with lung cancer, aged 64. His funeral yesterday was a typically private affair. Only a handful of close acquaintances were invited, plus a few representatives from the oil-rich Kingdom of Oman, where they fêted him as a modern-day Lawrence of Arabia. Six of Landon's estate workers, clad in his personal tweed, carried the coffin.He leaves behind £500m, the hamlet of Faccombe, and an extraordinary tale about how he acquired a fortune that made him twice as wealthy as the Queen.Only one picture of Landon has ever been published. He is photographed in his svelte youth, sitting in a Land-Rover with gun-toting associates of the Sultan of Oman, whom he helped lead a bloodless coup in the oil-rich nation in 1970. He is wearing a local head-dress, the picture cryptically annotated with the words "an intelligence Land-Rover". The grainy black-and-white photo carried on these pages, is, perhaps, the fitting footnote to his remarkable life.Landon was, after all, a man whose murky fortune was created from a conflict in which he helped the current Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Sa'id, seize power from his own father in a coup surreptitiously orchestrated by the British government. He was a lifelong adventurer and arms dealer who filled his coffers through a close friendship with the secretive Arabian dictator, and later became a crucial strategic link between the UK and the Arab world. Today, with the West in historic conflict with radical Islam, his legacy is more important than ever.More controversial, too. Earlier this year Landon was named as a key figure in the BAE Systems affair, allegedly passing money to an Austrian aristocrat to ease an arms deal between the firm and the Czech government. The sale is being investigated in three European countries. Questions have been raised in the Hungarian parliament over Landon's international business activities. He is alleged to have been involved in arms deals to dubious regimes over several decades, and has been accused of breaking oil embargos to South Africa and Rhodesia.Little wonder, then, that Landon's legacy should be one of sinister secrecy, as well as extraordinary wealth. In Faccombe, where the neoclassical barns are deceptively welcoming and the pub is wreathed in ivy, strangers are not just bamboozled by secrecy, they are made unwelcome. Walk past St Barnabas church, with several generations of the same family buried side by side, and the noise of twitching curtains becomes deafening. Those asking difficult questions in the Jack Russell pub are sent on their way before the local brew even wets their lips.In his later years, Landon would drive around London and Hampshire in a privately-owned black cab to avoid exposure. Some speculate this was due to security concerns accompanying someone rich enough to be regarded as one of Britain's 100 wealthiest men, and to have built up a property portfolio that contained around 50,000 acres of England, including several historic grouse moors. Others thought it laid bare paranoia that surrounded the manner in which his fortune was accumulated. To understand who was right, we must return to the beginning of his colourful and mysterious life.James Timothy Whittington Landon was born on 20 August 1942 on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. He came to England for his secondary education at 11 and attended Eastbourne College, where he was an unassuming pupil of stocky build who decided to follow the military footsteps of his father, who served in the Canadian army. Landon junior went on to Sandhurst and graduated in August 1962.According to Army records he was at best a mediocre soldier, coming 182nd out of the 208 cadets in his year. Despite this, he managed to secure a three-year commission as a second lieutenant in a cavalry regiment, the 10th Hussars, where again, he failed to excel.Everything changed, however, when Landon was seconded to Muscat, the capital of Oman, towards the end of his commission in the mid-1960s. Here, he got lucky: Britain had become embroiled in a guerrilla war with Communist rebels, trained and armed by Russia, who were trying to overthrow the incumbent ruler, Sultan Sa'id Taimur. Thanks in part to Landon's military nous, the rebels were kept at bay.Shortly afterwards, talk turned to the Omani succession: the ultra-conservative Sa'id Taimur was developing what was branded a "worrying independent streak" by Whitehall apparatchiks, who were fearful that he would not play ball with British oil companies anxious to cash in on Oman's recently discovered oil reserves. The British forces were instructed to begin plotting with Sa'id Taimur's son, Qaboos, about deposing his father. This, it was hoped, would secure the UK's national interests.Intrinsic to this plan was Landon, who claimed (possibly apocryphally) to have first met Qaboos while at Sandhurst, and was therefore seen as key to the success of the plan. London's chief intelligence officer in Muscat, Brigadier Malcolm Dennison, convinced Sa'id that he needed to let Landon visit Qaboos, who pined for the kind of contacts he had made while studying to be a soldier in the UK.At the time, the Sultan's son was living in the Salalah Royal Palace, in the south of the country. He was under house arrest, since Sa'id was worried that Qaboos would orchestrate a military coup to depose him. His fears were later proven right."I worked for Sa'id. He didn't trust his family because they had a history of doing each other in," said the explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, who is a distant relation of Landon's and coincidentally spent two years fighting Marxist guerrillas in Oman during the same period. "The British, through Tim, could meet Qaboos. They made him realise that if his father was to remain in control and be as reactionary as he was it would be bad for the country."Even in his role as a junior intelligence office, Landon provided useful military intelligence to those fighting the guerrillas, including Fiennes. "We'd never had good intelligence," said Fiennes. "But as soon as Tim came in we started getting the right information. We started killing people." He added: "I had nearly been killed through useless intelligence and it could be a bit worrying sitting in a cave somewhere wondering if they'd got things right. But Tim made a point of getting to know the locals; he learned their language and his information was reliable."The bloodless coup, around the time of which Landon was photographed in that Land-Rover, happened on 23 July 1970. One popular and colourful story records Landon storming a staircase at the palace with an automatic pistol in his hand. However, local experts maintain that this is almost certainly untrue.Either way, Sai'd was forced from power. Two years after his deposition, he died in a suite on the top floor of The Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane, London, where he had been living. When asked once what his greatest regret was shortly before his death, he is believed to have said: "Not having Landon shot."Qaboos' regime, for its part, began to prosper, thanks in no small part to Oman's burgeoning oil revenue. Landon meanwhile broke from the British military and became a senior personal adviser to Qaboos. According to Fiennes, Landon acted as a "generalist", advising the Sultan whom to consult on specific military and economic issues and other matters of governmental concern.At this time Landon began his work in the arms trade and started receiving commission from state oil deals. The subject was disclosed in 2002 by the writer John Beasant, who is one of the foremost experts on Oman, and who was at the time working on a book called The True-life Drama and Intrigue of an Arab State.Speaking this week, Beasant recalled being offered a substantial sum not to go ahead with his book. When he refused, he was expelled from the country. Since its publication, the book has been officially banned by the Omani regime, which is notoriously sensitive to criticism. When Robin Allen, the Financial Times' highly respected former Gulf correspondent reported troubling financial waters ahead for the nation, he was also banished.Soon Landon began to accrue his fortune. Beasant said: "Landon was of enormous help to Sultan Qaboos in establishing the modern Omani state at a time when the Sultan lacked experience of government and was desperately short of local talent on which to draw." Landon built up Oman's military as one of the best-armed small forces in the Middle East, and was well rewarded for his efforts by the Sultan. This trend continued apace. In 1980 alone, £400m was spent on defence in the country, which has a population of just over two million people. According to Beasant's book, the arms purchases were handled by David Bayley, another former British Army officer who would later become Landon's business partner.When in Oman, Landon is believed to have worked with Mark Thatcher, the politician's son who was no stranger to controversy in the Middle East. An infamous construction contract was awarded to British firm Cementation, a subsidiary of property conglomerate Trafalgar House, after Thatcher's mother, then Prime Minister, lobbied the sultan while Mark was on the company payroll. Beasant writes that Landon helped one firm break oil sanctions to Rhodesia and South Africa in the 1970s.Landon's relationship with Qaboos continued throughout his life. Although it was a risky business to be in, the Sultan apparently sent Landon cheques for £1m every birthday until his death. "Who wouldn't have taken the chance to get that much money," said Beasant.In the early 1980s Landon returned to Britain. He left Oman, according to Beasant, because, "rather like Alastair Campbell and Tony Blair, he became the story", but continued to work for Qaboos from an office in London, where business dealings were kept intensely secret. He ran an offshore company, Valurex, which was allegedly used in the BAE System arms deals to Prague. He is also believed to have kept an office in Washington, managed by a former CIA operative.Around this time Landon married his wife, Katerina, a member of the ancient Hungarian Esterhazy family. There were also rumours that she was related to the even more aristocratic Austrian Hapsburgs, which earned Landon the title: "Mr Perhapsburg".Mark Hollingsworth and Paul Halloran's 1995 book Thatcher's Gold claims that in 1982, Landon was given an honorary knighthood after Sultan Qaboos lobbied Thatcher. Because some in government were concerned about Landon's business dealings, the honour was given to him as a foreign citizen: he was not allowed to use the title "Sir".A loophole allowed this because Landon often travelled on his Omani passport, given to him by the Sultan as a special diplomatic privilege. The Duke of Edinburgh has also reportedly voiced "distaste" at Landon's affairs.Away from the office, Landon's greatest passion was country pursuits. Faccombe boasts a fine pheasant shoot, and during the 1990s he also began buying up grouse moors across the north of England. He is known to have given at least £210,000 to the Countryside Alliance, which has fought high-profile battles in favour of hunting."He liked the challenge – he was interested in conservation and management," said one sporting agent. "He also liked the people who did it – the beaters, the pickers-up, the gamekeepers. Whatever you are successful at in life, grouse moors create a levelling out process, because you are subject to the will of nature."Landon's name was linked several years ago the purchase of Viscount Lambton's 12,000-acre Muggleswick estate near Durham, and he is known to have purchased and sold-on Knarsdale and Asholme moors in Northumberland, all for a price approaching £10m. His other grouse moors at the time of his death stretched to North Yorkshire and Scotland.Landon's aparent affinity with the environment even provoked him to install one of the country's first wind turbines at Faccombe. He was also rumoured – bizarrely – to have embraced Buddhism, although this has been dismissed by another of Landon's close friends, who has known him socially since the 1970s. "He was a pretty conventional Christian gentleman. He might have done some meditation, but that's all," he said.For many, Landon was simply a bon viveur. He was friends in equal measure with the landed gentry and the farmers near Faccombe. He owned in his time a number of yachts, one of which, Leander, was sold to National Car Parks founder Sir Donald Gosling for £18m in the early 1990s.Landon was a great fan of opera and supported a number of opera groups, including the Pavilion Opera, London's premier touring chamber opera. After a day's shooting, he would often pay young classical musicians to perform concerts at his lavish estate. He also was fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, and would mix his shooting with skiing in Canada, tennis, and riding.Landon left behind a son, Arthur, believed to have been educated at Ampleforth College and Bristol University, who will inherit much of his father's fortune and is now taking some time off from university before considering his many options. "It's going to have a profound effect on his life," said the friend. "But no doubt he will rise to the occasion."Arthur has one man to thank for his new-found financial fortune. But that one man – Qaboos – is believed to have stayed away from yesterday's funeral.In Faccombe, the leaves are being blasted from the verges, and the clipped lawns near the Jack Russell are almost unbelievably verdant. It is silent, apart from the massed braying of sheep and guard dogs disturbed by the brazenness of a stranger. Locals remain undeterred by the potential changes that Landon's death will have on their future."We can only hope that it will have no effect," one said. "We'd be very surprised if it did. I think people here believe that life will just continue on as normal." Nothing, it seems, can pierce Faccombe's hermetic seal – not even death. It's presumably just what the White Sultan would have commanded.
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