Aside from being grateful that all the passengers apparently got out safely, there are a few things we can take away from this incident.
Thus, there should not be any shortages in refined oil products such as gasoline from this incident (especially as long as the LOOP remains operational).
Professor of international security at Birmingham University, Tony Mason, said Osama Bin Laden may have been behind any potential terrorist threat arising from this incident.
Finally, what are the lessons to be learned from this incident for the far more strategically significant question of technology transfers to the USSR and other potential adversaries?
From this incident flows the argument in some quarters that American ratification of LOST will take away Iran's "pretext" to challenge American warships in the Strait of Hormuz as it did in January.
After a considerable waste of time I eventually stemmed the tide before resumes flew, but I learned from this incident that a kingdom might very well be lost from something as innocuous as a closed door.
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We think it is far too early to claim that RIG will profit from this incident, but the insurance policy did what it was intended for and should help RIG deal with costs arising from the Deepwater Horizon, both legal and otherwise.
It is surely premature to draw too many lessons from this latest terrorist incident before the dust has settled, literally.
But it seems that they could have and should have done more to minimize the likelihood of this incident from occurring.
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What does the United States need to hear to placate its concerns, and how do you keep this incident from hurting U.S.-China relations?
It would be sad if these men got what they wanted, and see the school and pupils fall apart, but because there is a strong sense of support and care from the staff, this incident will be put to the side and everyone will pick themselves up and get on with their education, as we always have done.
What I think is the most important takeaway from this soon to be forgotten incident is not that McFaul is a bad ambassador or that we ought to do a better job of preparing our ambassadors for the inevitable compromises with honesty that diplomacy demands.
Nor do we have an idea if some sort of media blackout about them would have any effect in preventing this type of incident from occurring again.
While corporate officials misspeak from time to time, prosecutors thought this incident was different because of Mr. Peace's position as chairman and his unequivocal statement that the bank didn't willfully violate the law, the official said.
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"The citizens of McLennan County and Texas must have confidence that this incident has been looked at from every angle and professionally handled -- they deserve nothing less, " McLennan Sheriff Parnell McNamara said.
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Mr Garson said the commission carried out hundreds of forest operations and harvested about 700, 000 tonnes of timber every year, but this was the first pollution incident resulting from harvesting operations for more than 10 years.
Only myself and one friend decided to try and get tickets for the Leeds Festival following this incident and so we purchased 2 from ebay, unfortunately the guy selling them who assured me that he had the tickets in his possession and was ready to send them was lying and he was let down by his supplier, but again we got our money back.
But, Mr. President, I think we both believe that despite this incident, we will not be deterred from creating a path whereby Afghans can live in freedom and safety and security and prosperity, and that it is going to be important to continue the efforts to bring all elements of Afghan society together to end what has been a senseless cycle of violence.
For these reasons, this latest Iraqi shoe incident is taking away focus from the actual plight of the Iraqi people and is being wrongfully applauded by many people in certain parts of the world.
All this as China was still smarting from the spy-plane incident in April, as well as President Bush's decision to allow the biggest sale of arms to Taiwan in nearly a decade and press ahead with a missile-defence system that the Chinese say could destroy international arms-control efforts.
"The timing of an announcement like this, four or five days away from the election about an incident 24 years ago, which the governor's daughters don't even know about, is certainly questionable, " Hughes said.
Referring to this incident, Mr Zygner said that while walking home from work with tools in his bag Mr Kulinski drove past and gestured the sign of a gun at him with his hand, then got out and chased him.
Det Insp Joe Saunders, from Wiltshire Police, said: ""This is a large-scale incident of criminal damage and one we are taking extremely seriously.
Aside from this gaping hole in the service's usability in iOS, almost everything else worked without incident.
The administration has been restrained, and has made every effort to keep this, what is basically an accident of two planes colliding, from blowing up into an incident, which is something worse.
When it comes to this new world of public messaging and corporate communications, there are three key takeaways from the Kevin Smith incident.
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Mr. Romney can rebut the contention that he is "politicizing" this incident by showing that it is a teachable moment about the whirlwind we are going to reap from the seeds sown in the Mideast and elsewhere by President Obama.
Earlier this month, the cruise ship was dislodged from its mooring by a windstorm that also caused, in a separate incident, two shipyard workers to fall into Mobile Bay.
The Jets have managed to persevere through countless distractions this season, ranging from Braylon Edwards's early-season arrest on DUI charges, to the Ines Sainz incident, to questions about their head coach's personal life.
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