Thread: Chili Peppers concert

was anyone else lucky enough to go to the chili peppers in dallas? i just got back and i have to say it was hands down the best fucking show i have ever seen. ill be blown away by this one for a while.

Only song I remember from this group is "All Around The World", can't get enough of that song, I still listen to it daily. Red Hot Chilli Peppers are the band.

-Blackhawk

my fav band for a number of years, ive seen 2 of their shows in edmonton, one earlier this year and one in 2000 or so

Yea they are great. i didnt go on saturday but i did see them in 1999 in san diego, they are the best show ive seen to date. Real performers/entertainers.

Wife and I went and your right they were ass good as ever....

Wife and I went and your right they were as good as ever....

Unless you've seen a Linkin Park concert, you haven't lived.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Iraqi-American who helped organize a 2002 U.S. congressional trip to Baghdad was indicted on Wednesday on charges of working for the government of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the Justice Department said.

The indictment against Muthanna al-Hanooti, a former official with the registered Islamic charity Life for Relief and Development, said Iraq's foreign intelligence service funneled $34,000 through the charity to pay expenses for the delegation.

The three lawmakers who took the trip in October 2002, five months before the U.S.-led invasion to oust Saddam, were not named in the indictment.

News reports at the time said Democratic U.S. Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, Mike Thompson of California and David Bonior of Michigan, who were all opposed to war, were visiting Iraq. Delegation members said they warned Saddam's government that it had to allow U.N. inspections to avert war.

Bonior left office in 2003. He later served as manager of John Edwards presidential campaign.

Republicans sharply criticized the visit at the time.

Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd declined to discuss the delegation members, saying they had been unaware of the connection to Iraq.

"The (delegation) had no knowledge (of the financial connection). They are not accused of anything."

Al-Hanooti was arrested on Tuesday when he entered the United States from abroad, Boyd said. He was released on $100,000 bond with an electronic monitor after an initial court appearance in Detroit.

Iraqi-American charged with Saddam-era violations | U.S. | Reuters

(Bloomberg) -- Saddam Hussein's Iraqi intelligence agency secretly funded a trip to Iraq by three U.S. congressmen in 2002, after the Sept. 11 attacks and before the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. said in charges filed in Michigan.

The indictment accuses a Michigan man, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Iraq, of organizing the trip. Muthanna al-Hanooti is charged with conspiring to act as an Iraqi agent without notifying the U.S. He was to receive 2 million barrels of oil in payment, the indictment said.

The indictment didn't identify the three members of Congress it said traveled to Iraq with al-Hanooti. The Associated Press reported that the timing coincided with a trip taken by Democratic Representatives Jim McDermott of Washington, David Bonior of Michigan and Mike Thompson of California. There was no indication they knew Saddam's government paid for the trip, AP said.

Bloomberg.com: U.S.


Interesting...