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Old Oct 11, 2010 | 11:13 am
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Originally Posted by josh_saunders
Not cool.

This is too much. Giving us time to leave if that is what they want is one thing, but arbitrarily closing the airspace is another. What if there is time sensative equipment that is waiting to get in to Afghanistan to guys fighting on the ground.

Here is where they should begin turning Emirates flights around, and closing our airspace to them.
This is a very, very, ugly move. Close our airspace to EK et al ASAP. I could not understand the UAE's tactics before, and how on earth they think this will get what they want is incomprehensible.
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