Originally Posted by
eliotbeer
I've lived here for a few years now, and everyone I know has always had an awareness that there could be an attack - but truth be told, I feel much safer here than I do in London.
Also, there's the speculation that the latest alert might be reactionary - although if something happened (or nearly happened) here, we didn't hear about it...
Along the lines of what is mentioned in the second paragraph above, the UAE authorities have a history of picking up people and beating them into a bloody pulp to try to get information to "wrap up matters" and then either publicly hush it up or make only indirect references to what was wrapped up. That said, I think the UAE authorities are in over their head -- something will eventually happen -- and the British Foreign Office is engaging in CYA more than anything else with this alert.