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Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared three days of mourning Friday for the 52 victims of a casino fire set by presumed drug traffickers, branding the attackers “true terrorists” and ordering authorities to offer a .4 million reward for their capture. Calderon also once again lashed out at the United States, saying it is not doing enough to reduce the country’s high demand for illicit drugs or to stop the illegal trafficking of US weapons into Mexico. Armed assailants burst into the casino Thursday afternoon, swearing and shouting for customers and employees to get out. But many of the terrified victims fled farther inside the building, where they died trapped amid the flames and thick smoke that soon billowed out of the building. Calderon described the incident as the worst attack on innocent civilians in recent memory. “We are not confronting common criminals,” he said in a televised nationwide address. “We are facing true terrorists who have gone beyond all limits.” The federal Attorney General’s Office announced the reward money, equal to the amount the government has offered for information leading to the capture of the nation’s top drug lords. Surveillance video shows at least eight gunmen arriving at the Casino Royale in four cars. The they then head to the main entrance as customers rush outside to their cars in an attack that lasted just a little more than two minutes. The attackers are also seen carrying three large bottles, which Gov. Rodrigo Medina said …
www.nytimes.com Many of the country’s largest casinos, long opposed to gambling games like poker on the Internet, are now having second thoughts. Although online gambling is popular with millions of Americans, it is illegal in the United States, and the casino industry has considered it a threat. But a trade group that represents major casinos like Harrah’s Entertainment, MGM Resorts and Wynn Resorts is working on a proposal that would ask Congress to legalize at least some form of online gambling, the group’s chief executive said. The group, the American Gaming Association, issued a statement in the spring suggesting that online gambling could be properly regulated — the first public indication that its hard-line stance was softening. The chief executive, Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr., said in an interview by phone that the association had not settled on the details of its proposed legislation, including how the proceeds from Internet gambling would be taxed. “We have been working on something,” he said, “and continue to work on it.” Gambling specialists said it was likely that any casino-supported legalization would be limited to Internet poker because it was considered the least threatening to brick-and-mortar casinos. Internet poker already had the backing of some in the casino industry, and was seen as a new and lucrative source of revenue for the casino companies. Congress has been weighing a bill by Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, that would …
www.onlinecasinoreports.com London Affiliate Conference (LAC) 2010 event summary The Summary includes casino and poker affiliate interviews, igb Awards Ceremony, casinos and poker and bingo exhibit floors. Also in this summary you will find keynote speakers and some surprise highlights…
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CEO of William Hill Online, Henry Birch, on the mega merger between William Hill and Playtech, which created one of the largest online gambling companies in the world, in an interview held at CAP Euro London 2009.
