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The context clues in the first paragraph should have given it away - "...their plan was interupted when Home Secretary Ögmundur Jónasson learned about the FBI's
by WayneDB 14y ago
The context clues in the first paragraph should have given it away - "...their plan was interupted when Home Secretary Ögmundur Jónasson learned about the FBI's visit and sent them packing. The Icelandic government then issued a formal protest to United States authorities."
Do you really think that a top government official would have been notified of a market analyst arriving in the country?
- dhimes 14y agoBut GP's question was, what did the FBI actually do that pissed off Iceland? Just being there? Asking questions? Locking Icelanders in rooms and conducting interrogations? I think the question is a good one. It sounds like the consensus of the responders here is that it is the fact that they are an arm of the US gov't. So, for example, if the FDA sent somebody to inquire about food processing, say regarding Mad Cow disease, we could also expect that the Icelandic government would be pissed if they weren't in the loop.
- Xylakant 14y agoBeing there and asking questions without prior approval is enough if you're a government employee, even more so if you're an official investigator (part of any police force). You're intruding on foreign jurisdiction and trying to apply your own laws.
- betterunix 14y ago"what did the FBI actually do that pissed off Iceland? Just being there?" Just being there at a time that a member of Iceland's parliament is afraid to step outside Icelandic borders because she might be arrested by the United States seems like a pretty good reason...
- walshemj 14y agoGiven the way that the Icelandic government has written off the bank accounts of the pensioners who had money there leaving the UK and I presume US governments. You will have to forgive me as a uk taxpayer who is having to cover icleands debts - I personally don't give a fuck that the wheels came of there ponzie scheme.
- Nursie 14y agoTurned up at all. You don't send law enforcement into someone else's territory without being invited. It's an issue of sovereignty really.
- meh01 14y agoI'm not sure if you're being intentionally facetious, but I'm pretty sure Iceland is a sovereign nation, and not a US territory. That might have something to do with it.