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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]
> > For those who care about excesses of zeal, the Elashi brothers (operators > > as well as sponsor delagees of .iq) of someplace in Texas, were charged with > > giving money to Hamas or a charity linked to Hamas, and sending a PC to Syria, > > and parts of a PC -- perhaps a mouse pad -- to Libya. > > http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txn/PressRel04/Elashi.pdf Thanks Dan, I've read it, several times, and the prior and subsequent filings, and the referenced export regs as well. It all comes down to pretending a PC is a supercomputer, pretending that ordinary Syrians, let alone nuclear weapons proliferating Syrians, didn't, in this period, routinely drive from Damascus to Beruit, and an untested claim of money laundering, and a lot of highly excited politically ambitious people in North America. The Elashis didn't run a great cctld before the present excitement, but a lot of cctld operators could then be, and can now be, similarly characterized. Eric
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