A little harsh, perhaps. A simple fine would probably suffice in this case.
But (as I have mentioned before) my own take on all this is that something more, shall we say, sinister is going on.
After all, Nick is not the only Saudi-based correspondent that we no longer hear from, is he?
Meanwhile, I am reminded of Wolfgang (yet another of my old mates), who used to clip the exchange rate list from the Arab News every day. He had a collection stretching back many years, and interesting "reading" it was too!
