[85044] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT so)
Fri Sep 30 17:52:01 2005
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>, brunner@nic-naa.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:32:02 PDT."
<Pine.LNX.4.63.0509301427360.23373@sasami.anime.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:38:43 -0400
From: Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > 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
