Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Information Technologies industry in North Carolina

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Charlotte Oracle Users Group

CLTOUG BYLAWS


ARTICLE I


NAME


The name of this corporation shall be the Charlotte Oracle Users Group, a not-for-profit business association organized under the laws of the State of North Carolina of the United States of America (hereinafter "CLTOUG”)


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Section 1. Not for Profit. CLTOUG is organized under and shall operate as a North Carolina not-for-profit business association.


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Lebanese Political Journal

More on Aoun

The web is blazing with commentary about the recently returned General Michel Aoun.
Here's some more fuel for the fire.
I disagree fundamentally with the claim that Aoun is bad because he killed people.
I differentiate between good war and bad war.
Amal fought very bad war. Jumblatt fought bad sometimes and good sometimes (kind of like his political opinions). Aoun was like Jumblatt. In Lebanese terms, Hezbollah fought good far more than bad.

The reason Aoun and Hezbollah get along so well is because they are both nationalist parties fighting for nationalist causes, although using different allies.
Was President Hafez al Assad better than Saddam? Can Hama (where Assad massacred tens of thousands) be compared with Kurdistan (where Saddam gassed his people)? Can the Lebanese war be compared with Kuwait?

I think going through such lists leads to frivolity.
Aoun did kill, as do all field generals in combat. He was employed to do so. His assignment was to defend his country. When all leaders were gone, he took orders from himself.





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'They Came Here to Die'

Insurgents Hiding Under House in Western Iraq Prove Fierce in Hours-Long Fight With Marines

By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, May 11, 2005; Page A01


JARAMI, Iraq, May 10 -- Screaming "Allahu Akbar'' to the end, the foreign fighters lay on their backs in a narrow crawl space under a house and blasted their machine guns up through the concrete floor with bullets designed to penetrate tanks. They fired at U.S. Marines, driving back wave after wave as the Americans tried to retrieve a fallen comrade.


Through Sunday night and into Monday morning, the foreign fighters battled on, their screaming voices gradually fading to just one. In the end, it took five Marine assaults, grenades, a tank firing bunker-busting artillery rounds, 500-pound bombs unleashed by an F/A-18 attack plane and a point-blank attack by a rocket launcher to quell them.



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