Not an easy decision given the impact on business and other social set-ups in the UAE and Middle East.
Its a matter of state security versus allowing unmonitored freedom of information.
Rather than condemn the Saudi and Emirates governments, it is upon the manufacturers of blackberry and related software to get a solution for this that will satisfy state regulators and also their own customers.
If Uganda was unable to trace the Kampala bombers through the cell phone numbers on the aborted bomb, these guys would be roaming freely in Kawangware waiting to blow their next victims. Who knows, may be they were actually the same group involved in the Uhuru Park bombings which never yielded any clues as to who the culprit was.