Bribe, Threaten or Blackmail is the Standard Op for Westerners
No, sorry. Its not just extremely tacky; its a security risk. The Yemeni gov’t was crowing when she came to the YO as a pro-government female American journalist. I recall it quite well and the older stories of another high level western official caught up in a complicated and highly nasty plot. True or not true isn’t the issue, possibly true is good enough to demonstrate the vulnerability. The UK needs a new ambassador to Yemen, pronto. He’s a lovely guy according to all accounts, but thats not good enough in the modern world.
One explains: ‘Because she wasn’t registered, she wasn’t security checked for several months — this was a foreign journalist, with close contacts among pro-government Yemeni journalists, living in the Ambassadorial residence. Daily Mail
