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The Times of London's main editorial Monday, headlined "Japan in the Dock," congratulated the other participants in the Group of Seven finance ministers' meeting in London over the weekend on the "acrimonious" dressing-down they gave the Japanese representative.
When Binalshibh discussed Moussaoui's arrest with KSM after September 11, KSM congratulated himself on not having Moussaoui contact the other operatives, which would have compromised the operation.
Instead it congratulated the couple on the courage and optimism that had enabled them in the end to triumph: "You got home in time to see the film, so it really wasn't such a bad day."
Louis Farrakhan all pretended to be reasonable people on CNN's Evans & Novak . After Farrakhan left the set, Novak congratulated himself and Farrakhan for exhibiting such good talk-show manners.
I congratulated myself.