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  • #31
    "That's nothing" says the Zimbabwean surgeon "I was walking down the street in Harare one day when I smelt a fart. We bundled it into a plastic bag & took it to the hospital. We built an arsehole round it, we attached some legs & feet, transplanted a torso, some arms & hands & finally we transplanted a head. When we finished we called it Robert Mugabe & he's put the whole bloody country out of work"


    That guy should be kicked out.
    "The Director also sets the record straight on what would happen if oxygen masks were to drop from the ceiling: The passengers freak out with abandon, instead of continuing to chat amiably, as though lunch were being served, like they do on those in-flight safety videos."

    -- The LA Times, in a review of 'Flightplan'

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    • #32
      Originally posted by aerpix
      The interesting thing is, Robert, that all of the leaders you mentioned were thrown over during the period we now call the 'cold war', i.e. when we had more than one super power around. There are a couple more to be added: Idi Amin Dada (Central African Rep), Hissène Habré (Tchad) or Enver Hoxha (Albania). All were brought to fall by their people, which is right so. These and those you mentioned clearly show that we do not need a world police.
      Idi Amin (or to use the full title he bestowed upon himself "His Excellancy President for Life Field Marshal Al Hadj Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, King of the Scots and Conqueror of the British Empire" was the ruler of Uganda, not the CAR.

      An excerpt from a letter sent to, amongst others, the then Secretary General of the UN by Idi Amin;

      "Unless the Scots achieve their independence peacefully . . . they will take up arms and fight the English until they regain their freedom. Many of the Scottish people already consider me last King of the Scots. I am the first man to ask the British government to end their oppression of Scotland. If the Scots want me to be their King, I will. "

      I know 3 or 4 guys who used to fly for him & they all say bizarrely that, providing you didn't fall out of favour he could be a really nice guy.....

      RJP
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      • #33
        Idid Amin whatever his full name is was a nice guy?????
        "The Director also sets the record straight on what would happen if oxygen masks were to drop from the ceiling: The passengers freak out with abandon, instead of continuing to chat amiably, as though lunch were being served, like they do on those in-flight safety videos."

        -- The LA Times, in a review of 'Flightplan'

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        • #34
          No, he was a terrible leader. He came to power by force only to ruin his country and kill scores of innocent dissidents. Today, the jerk resides in Saudi Arabia. I think.

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          • #35
            I know, but then............

            Originally posted by RJP
            I know 3 or 4 guys who used to fly for him & they all say bizarrely that, providing you didn't fall out of favour he could be a really nice guy.....

            RJP
            How was he a nice guy???
            "The Director also sets the record straight on what would happen if oxygen masks were to drop from the ceiling: The passengers freak out with abandon, instead of continuing to chat amiably, as though lunch were being served, like they do on those in-flight safety videos."

            -- The LA Times, in a review of 'Flightplan'

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            • #36
              Originally posted by indian airlines
              Idid Amin whatever his full name is was a nice guy?????
              To the overwhelming majority of people in Uganda nope, he certainly wasn't.

              Originally posted by RJP
              I know 3 or 4 guys who used to fly for him & they all say bizarrely that, providing you didn't fall out of favour he could be a really nice guy.....
              Emphasis added above

              Having never met the guy I couldn't comment from personal experience so the above is based on what I've previously been told by 3 or 4 pilots who flew extensively for him.

              Originally posted by Richard
              No, he was a terrible leader. He came to power by force only to ruin his country and kill scores of innocent dissidents. Today, the jerk resides in Saudi Arabia. I think.
              Seems a fair synopsis of him. Ironically he was assisted in the coup by the Israelis http://www.afrol.com/News2002/uga004_amin_uk.htm & http://www.aboutsudan.com/dossiers/idi_amin.htm which was no doubt an embarassment a few years later http://www.idf.il/english/history/entebbe1.stm.

              RJP
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              • #37
                So basically he was nice if you sucked up to him....
                "The Director also sets the record straight on what would happen if oxygen masks were to drop from the ceiling: The passengers freak out with abandon, instead of continuing to chat amiably, as though lunch were being served, like they do on those in-flight safety videos."

                -- The LA Times, in a review of 'Flightplan'

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                • #38
                  Sorry to mix Idi Amin up with the CAR, he was of course from Uganda. I meant Jean Bedel Bokassa, Emperor of the CAR, but then again both guys were really bad guys.

                  Regards,
                  Peter

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by indian airlines
                    So basically he was nice if you sucked up to him....
                    Dunno if that's the case.... I've talked about this quite a bit with the crews involved but must admit to not having put the above question to them quite as succinctly as you I got the impression though that it was more a case of you being ok if he'd decided someone else was that days victim.

                    One of his pilots that I know stole the bar contents from his aircraft one night (about the time he was deposed by the Tanzanian invasion) & made his escape across the airfield in the middle of the night. Apparantly he was being urged by a colleague who'd gone along to leave the sack of bottles as apparantly all that could be heard across the (deserted) airfield was glass bottles 'chinking' together
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