Quote Originally Posted by WA9SVD View Post
I agree it is greatly unfair, and shortsighted, if not blind to the Spirit of International good will But the operators have to abide by the rules of the country from which they operate. (It's even in the IARU guidelines.)
This is correct - BUT the organizers of the DXpedition, their sponsors and other associated with the project, if they had ethics & integrity, had another alternative: to refuse to accept the constraints imposed upon them by Yemen and discontinue the entire operation. This they did not do, and at least to me that speaks VOLUMES about them.