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11 Apr 2011, 3:28 am
“Mr Stiassny had falsely labelled Paragon insolvent and lied to the Court about it; overcharged for accounting services; carried out dishonest and deceptive accounting practices; lied to the Professional Conduct Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants; amassed a huge fortune through acting dishonestly; stolen Paragon’s technology; been guilty of serious criminal conduct; committed perjury; acted in a manner worse than the criminals of the Enron scandal; [and] was to be… [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 7:06 am
Perhaps Judge Alex Kozinski, referencing Scott Turow of all people, put it best in dissenting from the 9th Circuit’s refusal to rehear en banc a case in which Vanna White successfully sued Samsung for violating her “right of publicity” by “appropriating” her “identity,” emphasizing that overprotecting intellectual property is as dangerous as underprotecting it (footnotes omitted): Saddam Hussein wants to keep advertisers from using his… [read post]
9 Jul 2022, 6:00 am
But if the price of an asset such as an oil future fluctuates as a function of the likelihood of Saddam Hussein losing the war in Iraq, it seems to follow that the prices of Russian bonds should reflect the differential in clauses that are explicitly meant to give Russia more leeway in the event of western sanctions – and this differential should be bigger as a function of the probability/severity of sanctions. [read post]
26 Jan 2010, 11:40 pm
” Press coverage: Guardian - Lord Goldsmith got taxpayer help for Iraq war inquiry legal advice | Chilcot inquiry: Lawyers expose pressure to give green light for war | Times - Lord Goldsmith to face pressure over legal U-turn on Iraq war | Telegraph - Government knew ‘no leg to stand on’ legally to go to war in Iraq | Independent – Invade and be damned: Foreign Office lawyers say advice on legality of war was ignored As a postscript to… [read post]
12 Sep 2008, 11:24 am
Palin did not believe Saddam Hussein played a role in the attacks.The interview took place on the seventh anniversary of the attacks. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 6:41 am
While I acknowledge that it is in the insurance industry's interest to have this viewpoint, the same way it was in the interest of Halliburton to support the view that Saddam Hussein had a significant number of weapons of mass destruction, the question posed to public adjusters should be: Can you better serve policyholders by raising the professional bar of what is expected of you and your peers? [read post]
20 Jul 2021, 3:04 pm
While the three senators are right to seek total repeal of the 1957 and 1991 AUMFs (both of which are moribund, anyway) and the 2002 Iraq AUMF (aimed at Saddam Hussein's long-defunct regime), I would prefer to revise and narrow rather than completely repeal the 2001 "War on Terror" AUMF, as I think there are good reasons to continue military operations against some radical Islamist groups in the Middle East. [read post]
1 May 2012, 10:13 pm
After all, it wasn’t so long ago that Iraq guaranteed it would give Saddam Hussein a fair trial and defended that guarantee by pointing to the (ostensible) formal adequacy of the law and procedure governing the Iraqi High Tribunal. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 7:59 am
It is relevant here that a signal if unacknowledged aim of terminating the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003 was to establish a pro-American order in Iraq in parallel with a similarly pliant government in Kabul. [read post]
23 Nov 2014, 2:32 pm
This, as I am assure your are aware, was a joint case with Chevron and BNP claiming that they had aided and abetted human rights abuses by the Government of Iraq during the Saddam Hussein’s regime. [read post]
5 Oct 2014, 7:00 am
Ironically, however, U.S. leaders increasingly feared that they were “losing the peace” because the coalition arrayed against Saddam Hussein was fraying. [read post]
12 Jul 2022, 4:49 am
Alarmed by this threat, U.S. officials launched a 2015 operation to kill Salid al-Sabawi, a key weapons expert in the group who had once helped President Saddam Hussein build his extensive arsenal of chemical weapons. [read post]
21 Apr 2015, 10:07 am
Reuter describes how Samir Abd Muhammad al-Khlifawi, a former colonel in the intelligence service of Saddam Hussein’s air defense force, meticulously planned ISIS’s rise, using systematic surveillance in northern Syria to push other would-be challengers from its safe zones. [read post]
26 Jul 2016, 9:01 pm
On the stump and during his acceptance speech at last week’s Republican National Convention, Donald Trump declared himself “the law-and-order candidate. [read post]
20 Mar 2013, 9:13 am
Bush) thought Saddam Hussein was planning to use drones to perpetrate an attack with biological weapons. [read post]
28 Feb 2023, 9:42 am
Saddam Hussein, a research economist, asserted: “Politics and economics must be delinked if we are to take on the path of economic growth and development in the real sense of the word. [read post]
1 Jan 2011, 1:40 pm
Saddam Hussein did not intend that his presidential palaces be used to house a democratically elected government. [read post]
1 May 2007, 8:25 pm
In the run-up to the first Gulf War, the Marines spent many days practicing amphibious landings in front of CNN's cameras, while the Army, far inland, prepared its actual advance across the desert -- an attack that met little resistance because Saddam Hussein's troops were stationed to repel the Marines that their TV-viewing had conditioned them to believe would soon be splashing out of the waves. [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 2:16 am
” Keith, who had previously claimed that he supported any artist’s freedom to voice their opinion about politics, used a doctored photo of Maines with an image of Saddam Hussein at his concerts, further ramping up angry fans. [read post]
20 Aug 2013, 9:00 pm
He sought and received both U.N. and congressional approval for the first Gulf War, and he conducted the war within the limits of his legal mandate—ceasing active combat after Saddam Hussein’s forces were pushed out of Kuwait. [read post]
