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MickC @ August 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Obama admits drop in Iraqi violence was more than he had anticipated - Los Angeles Times
Earlier Sunday, in an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Obama acknowledged that he had failed to anticipate the sharp decline in attacks in Iraq, but he contended that President Bush and McCain had made the same mistake.
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Addressing what has [...]
MickC @ July 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Mahmoud Mymomisadad has now sworn not to give up uranium enrichment:
“Iran will never abandon its peaceful (nuclear) work,” Ahmadinejad told state television. “Our nuclear work is legal and why should we stop it? … If we suspend our nuclear work there will be no issue to talk about (with the West).”
And now we know why [...]
MickC @ August 3, 2006 # No Comment Yet
On Tuesday, we noted a case in New York where the Arab Bank made the argument that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”
Today, we get more information about that argument. James Taranto got an email from another of the Arab Bank’s attorneys (6th item). This attorney, Bob Chlopak, a Washington lawyer [...]
MickC @ August 3, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Today I find this hit in my log:
12.145.108.11 - - [03/Aug/2006:13:25:16 -0500] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 11463 “http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-41,GGLG:en&q=%22arab+bank%22+leboeuf%2C+lamb” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)”
Being the curious person I am, and given that the search was fairly specific, I decided to look up the IP address:
whois 12.145.108.11
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[whois.arin.net]
AT&T WorldNet Services ATT (NET-12-0-0-0-1)
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MickC @ August 3, 2006 # No Comment Yet
I’ll mostly just let this video speak for itself.
MickC @ August 1, 2006 # 2 Comments
Today’s The New York Sun reports that the Arab Bank is asking a judge to dismiss a suit accusing it of funding terror.
The Jordan-based Arab Bank yesterday asked a federal judge in Brooklyn to dismiss a lawsuit brought by thousands of Israelis who claim the bank fueled terrorism by providing payments to the relatives of [...]
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