Reply #9: I wanna say Detroit.

[Octafish]

Heh heh heh. Yeah, Pruneface looks perterbed and Poppy says, "Cheese. Grab that camera."

I don't remember, but I seem to associate the image with a nice dinner around the time of the 1980 GOP convention in Detroit.

Here's a nice one, from what I remember as a Club for Growth dinner:

Bin Laden linked to BCCI

September 26, 2001: 3:21 p.m. ET
Accused WTC terrorist tied to BCCI bank scandal of 1990s
By Allan Dodds Frank

WASHINGTON (CNNfn) - New details of suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden's finances emerged Wednesday in a Senate Banking Committee hearing on money laundering.

Among other things, the committee learned of a bank established by bin Laden with links to banks around the world and bank accounts at the fraud-ridden Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which was closed in the early 1990s.

This tidbit of information had been in the possession of U.S. investigators as long as a decade ago, but overlooked, a senator testified. This is because bin Laden had not then been identified as a focus of U.S. terrorism concerns.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who conducted an investigation into the fraud-ridden Bank of Credit and Commerce International, said bin Laden held a number of accounts with BCCI.

"When we shut it down, we dealt him a very serious economic blow." Kerry said.

The global BCCI, established by Pakistanis but incorporated in Luxembourg, was shut down by regulators in a multibillion-dollar collapse in the early 1990s. It was not only a haven for money launderers but a major route of financing for the volunteer Islamic force that went to Afghanistan – of which bin Laden was a part – to fight the Russian army.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., also highlighted information that his committee made public several months ago but was overlooked generally with regard to the operation of a bank in Sudan that was established by bin Laden in the early 1990s.

Levin said bin Laden allegedly provided the AlShamal Islamic Bank (www.shamalbank.com) with $50 million in start-up capital.

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http://money.cnn.com/2001/09/26/news/binladen/

Nice thing to teach kids, associate dinner with firepower.