When one door closes, another one opens. Love how the writer uses "ballsy". Armed gambling, sounds like a great idea.
"Not to be outdone by the establishment of the American University of Iraq in the northern Iraqi city of Suleimaniya, a ballsy Russian businessman, Vitaly Kouznetzov, has helped bring another, sexier, slice of American life to the Iraqi Kurds: he's brought a touch of Las Vegas to that same Kurdish cultural capital with the launch of an American-style casino. Take that, al-Qaeda.
Suleimaniya is located near the border with Iran, and has long been considered a bastion of liberalism in a part of the world known more for intolerance and chaotic bloodshed."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/20/casino_iraq/
EDIT - $1000 for the first 2+2er's TR