Comments on: US frontpage wrap: the Wall St crash http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/01/us-frontpage-wrap-the-wall-st-crash/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:13:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Shane http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/01/us-frontpage-wrap-the-wall-st-crash/#comment-23633 Shane Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-23633 It is hard to comment on the disaster of this magnitude.<br />But somehow I cannot help myself to share this true story:<br />My very close friends work for an American global construction company Bechtel. For a couple of years they were assigned to the Emirates. Not particular fans of Arabs, their wives could not drive a car ( but had chauffeurs) or drink whisky, they were absolutely shocked when one day the Sheik decided to abolish all the debts of his subjects.<br /><br />Them Muslims! It is hard to comment on the disaster of this magnitude.
But somehow I cannot help myself to share this true story:
My very close friends work for an American global construction company Bechtel. For a couple of years they were assigned to the Emirates. Not particular fans of Arabs, their wives could not drive a car ( but had chauffeurs) or drink whisky, they were absolutely shocked when one day the Sheik decided to abolish all the debts of his subjects.

Them Muslims!

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