Author: Zakarian Garnik

NEW BOOK WRONGLY BLAMES NAZIS FOR MUSLIM HATRED OF ISRAEL
Pamela Geller

BigJournalism.com
/pgeller/2010/04/26/new-book-wrongly-blames-nazis- for-muslim-hatred-of-israel/
April 26 2010

The latest attempt to excuse or minimize the evils committed in the
name of Islam comes in a new book by University of Maryland professor
Jeffrey Herf, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World. In an interview
with the Telegraph, the author says:

The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians would have been over
long ago were it not for the uncompromising, religiously inspired
hatred of the Jews that was articulated and given assistance by Nazi
propagandists and continued after the war by Islamists of various
sorts.

This doesn’t even make any sense. If Muslim hatred of the Jews was
"religiously inspired," i.e., inspired by Islam, then why did it
need to be "articulated" by the Nazis, who despised all religion? In
reality, it is "articulated" in the Qur’an, which says that the
Jews are accursed (2:89), are the Muslims’ worst enemies (5:82),
and should be fought against (9:29). Muhammad says in a hadith that
the end times won’t come until Muslims kill Jews wholesale, and when
Jews hide behind trees, the trees will cry out, "O Muslim! There is
a Jew hiding behind me – come and kill him!"

Muslims were not and are not inspired by Hitler and the Nazis. Hitler
and the Nazis were inspired by Islam – just as modern-day Muslims hate
Jews because the Qur’an and Islam tell them to. Islamic scholar Robert
Spencer explains: There is a strong native strain of anti-Semitism in
Islam, which is rooted in the Qur’an. The Muslim holy book contains
a great deal of material that forms the foundation for a hatred of
Jews that has perdured throughout Islamic history. It is virulent and
hard to eradicate. The Qur’an portrays the Jews as the craftiest,
most persistent, and most implacable enemies of the Muslims — and
there is no Islamic authority that has moved to mitigate the most
destructive interpretations of all this. The Qur’anic material on
the Jews remains the prism through which far too many Muslims see
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-and Jews in general-to this day.

The Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, was the Muslim Hitler.

He continually coaxed, urged, and demanded Jewish annihilation. And it
was not that he got with the Nazi program: he preceded it. He mentored
it. His role is irrefutable, and is documented in thousands of pages
of documents released after the war.

The Mufti, whom his nephew Yasser Arafat called "our hero," was
famous for his fanatical Jew-hatred. During World War II, he lived
in Berlin, where he met Hitler and traveled in top Nazi circles (he
even stayed in Hitler’s bunker toward the end of the war). Among his
close friends was Adolf Eichmann, who is sometimes described as the
"architect" of the Holocaust.

But the Mufti may be more deserving of that title. According to the
Arab Higher Committee, "in virtually identical letters, the Mufti,
in the summer of 1944, approached Germany, Roumania, Bulgaria, and
Hungary to speed the extermination of the Jews by sending them to
Poland where the Nazi death chambers were located."

These death chambers may have been his idea. Adolf Eichmann’s
assistant, Dieter Wisliczeny, testified during the Nuremberg Trials
that the Mufti:

… repeatedly suggested to the Nazi authorities – including
Hitler, von Ribbentrop and Himmler – the extermination of European
Jewry. … The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic
extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and
adviser of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan… He
was one of Eichmann’s best friends and had constantly incited him to
accelerate the extermination measures.

During World War I, Hajj Amin al-Husseini was an officer of the
Ottoman Empire, which used primitive gas chambers to exterminate
Armenians. The Nazis used these gas chambers as templates for their
own, more sophisticated versions – maybe the Mufti gave them the
idea while he was urging Eichmann to "accelerate the extermination
measures."

The Telegraph article makes much of Hitler’s radio broadcasts to the
Arab world, but doesn’t mention the fact that Hitler gave the Mufti
a radio station, which al-Husseini used to preach jihad genocide in
Arabic. His appeal was explicitly Islamic. "According to the Muslim
religion," he said in one broadcast, "the defense of your life is a
duty which can only be fulfilled by annihilating the Jews… Your
sole hope of salvation lies in annihilating the Jews before they
annihilate you."

What is galling and repugnant is that the Mufti’s face is not an
icon of evil, as is that of Hitler or Mussolini. Why did he escape
prosecution after World War II? It is an outrage that the Mufti
who exterminated hundreds of thousands of Jews was given the same
status of The Jewish Agency at the UN in 1947, when it was debating
the partition of the Jewish State — despite the stunning evidence
(documents, files, etc.) against him that was presented to the UN.

Why were his sins washed clean then? Why did the State Department
refuse to release its White Paper on the Mufti’s actions during the
war? Why weren’t we taught in school about Islamic Jew-hatred and its
role in the Holocaust? Why wasn’t the tie-in made to Black September,
the Beirut bombing, the World Trade Center bombing of 1993 and the
September 11th attack on America?

The only difference between Hitler and the Mufti is that Hitler was
defeated and punished. The slaughtering Mufti went on to spawn Yasser
Arafat, inspire Saddam Hussein, and work to destroy the Jewish homeland
and its people.

There is no statute of limitations on genocide. I indict the Mufti
and the Muslim world. They were equal partners in mass death. Today’s
Muslims hate Israel for the same reasons that the Mufti collaborated
with the Nazis: because Islam teaches Muslims to hate Jews and want
to kill them.

So why are Jeffrey Herf and so many others making excuses for the
Islamic role in the Holocaust, and shifting the blame entirely to
the Nazis?

ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT PASSES BILL TO TIGHTEN PUNISHMENT FOR VIOLATION OF COPYRIGHT

ARKA
April 26, 2010
Yerevan

YEREVAN, April 26, /ARKA/. Armenian parliament has passed in the first
reading today a bill designed to tighten punishment for violation of
copyright. The proposed bill calls for mandatory marking of carriers
of audio and video information by control marks of holograms.

The bill was submitted by Karen Vardanian from the opposition Armenian
Revolutionary Federation, who said it is aimed at increasing the level
of protection of authors. He said the mandatory requirement for marking
the carriers will apply both to domestic and foreign products, except
for carriers of information brought in as humanitarian assistance.

Karen Vardanian said a first breach of the law will entail a penalty
in the amount of 1 million Drams or $2,500. The repeated breach will
entail to a criminal prosecution-a prison term up to 12 months. He
downplayed fears that this introduction may result in higher prices
of such products.

The latest Business Software Alliance’s (BSA) annual survey shows that
Armenia tops the rankings of nations with most pirated software. The
BSA estimates that 93% of software used in the country is pirated. The
US has the lowest rate at 20%.

PEACE TALKS STALL AS ISTANBUL MARKS 95TH ANNIVERSARY OF MASS KILLINGS
Sarah Marcus

Globe and Mail
April 25 2010
Canada

Armenians disagree whether opening border should be conditional on
neighbouring Turks acknowledging genocide

.Armenians came in the tens of thousands, climbing slowly up a steep
hill to lay flowers at a monument in the country’s capital, Yerevan,
commemorating up to 1.5 million of their forebears who were massacred
under the Ottoman Turks during the First World War.

This year marks the 95th anniversary of the mass killings, recognized
by some countries, including Canada, as genocide. To Armenians’
continuing outrage, Turkey rejects this label, accepting that many
Christian Armenians – though not up to 1.5 million – were killed,
but stressing that this happened as part of the wider conflict and
that many Muslim Turks and Kurds died too.

This year, for the first time however, a commemorative event will be
held in Istanbul, led by a group of Turkish intellectuals.

The mood among the huge crowds paying their respects in Yerevan was
reflective and sober, with many people reduced to tears.

"There is not one person in Yerevan who did not lose at least one
family member in the genocide,’ says 25-year-old Gagik Petrosyan,
whose great grandmother was killed.

The period of terror commemorated on Saturday was something that
100-year-old Tigranuhi Asatrian witnessed first hand.

In 1918, when she was eight, she and her family fled their village in
the region of Kars, then located on the western fringes of the Russian
Empire, only escaping alive because Turks with whom her father worked
warned him of the violence being unleashed against Armenians.

Despite this warning, which saved her life, Ms. Asatrian said she
cannot forgive the Turks.

"I saw too much to forgive. I saw children raped. I saw a five-year-old
boy whipped to death," she said in an interview in the one-room
Yerevan apartment she shares with her son and daughter-in-law.

She often stands on her small balcony, staring out at snowy Mount
Ararat, the enduring symbol of Armenia, looming over the city.

"It is as if she is remembering her homeland," said Gayane Asatrian,
her daughter-in-law.

Ararat is now out of reach for her mother-in-law, located over the
border in modern Turkey, in an area that Armenians consider their
rightful land.

For some of the many ethnic Armenians scattered across the globe,
only their ancestral turf feels like home.

Armenian-Canadian Zabelle Berberian, 54, is one of them. Her forebears
fled the genocide and arrived, via Lebanon, in Canada. She left Toronto
in 1986, fulfilling a lifelong dream of getting married in Armenia –
her husband is also Armenian-Canadian – and then settling in Yerevan.

"I feel at home in Armenia. The culture brought me back here,"
she says.

Many Armenians abroad are active lobbyists for wider international
genocide recognition.

Recent attempts to quell nearly a century of animosity between Turkey
and Armenia faltered two days before this year’s anniversary.

Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan announced on Thursday that his
country would put on hold but not abandon negotiations to normalize
relations with Turkey, which were kick-started a year ago.

Once ratified by both countries’ parliaments, the agreement would have
seen the border open, but that opportunity appears stymied for now.

An open border would benefit both countries, increasing Turkey’s
influence regionally and giving Armenia an economic boost, and some
observers say progress may still be made.

Some Armenian critics said that no agreement should have been made
until Turkey recognizes the killings as genocide, but many Armenians
want the border to open and think that it should not be linked to
this question.

As the politicians wrangled, Ms. Asatrian mapped a seemingly simple
yet so far elusive path forward.

"Turkey should ask for forgiveness and Armenia should give it,"
she says, "and our peoples should live well together."

On April 24 Commemoration of the 95th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide to be held at PASYDY Hall in Cyprus

YEREVAN, APRIL 24, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Commemoration of the
95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide will be held at PASYDY Hall.
Keynote speaker of the event is Cyprus Euro-Parliamentarian Ioannis
Kasoulides. Hamazkayin Cultural and Educational Association’s SIPAN
Dance Ensemble will perform in the cultural program. According to the
report of , the event is organised by the
Commemorative Committee comprising of Armenian-Cypriot organisations.

Aysor, Armenia
April 24 2010

The Parliament of Buenos Ayres calls on recognizing the Genocide

On April 22 on the parliamentary session of Buenos Ayres in the
frameworks of the `Day of tolerance and respect between the nations’
and in connection with the 95th anniversary of Armenian Genocide
unanimously accepted a resolution according to which `The legislative
body of Buenos Ayres in respect to the memory of the victims and in
order to prevent such kind of crimes in the future calls on the
international community and Turkey in the first place to recognize the
first Genocide of the 20th century,’ informs the press and information
department of the Armenian Foreign Ministry.

SPECIAL LESSON: WAS PRESENTED THE FILM "AUCTION OF SOULS"

Aysor
April 21 2010
Armenia

By the initiation of the RA education and science ministry, Yerevan
Municipality and Armenian Genocide Institute – Museum today in the
62nd secondary school was organized a special lesson dedicated to the
95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The special lesson for
the 10th form pupils was conducted by the RA education and science
ministers Armen Ashotyan, RA Disapora minister Hranush Hakobyan and
the RA culture Minister Hasmik Poghosyan.

As the information and public relations department of the RA Science
and Education informs Minister A. Ashotyan mentioned that that type of
visits are important for the RA Government and the RA Prime Minister
has informed all ministers that they should make tradition the personal
contact with the school environment.

At first they watched the film called an "Auction of souls", which
was the first fiction shot about the Armenian genocide with the
participation of an Armenian girl who survived the Armenian Genocide,
Arshaluys Martikyan. The movie was shot in 1918 in California by the
American Metro Goldwin Mayer film production. The director is Oskar
Apfeli and was shot just after the Genocide based on the book written
by one of the survivors. The book on which was taken the film is called
"Lacerated Armenia".

The film "Auction of souls" was presented in New York in 1919 on
February 16.

Generally the film has been shown in 23 states of the USA, in Latin
America, in Great Britain, and has gained exceptional success in
almost everywhere. Later on the film has disappeared and the historians
have tried to find the 9 parts of the film, but all in vain. The full
version of the film, unfortunately, has not preserved till now. And
it was only by the efforts of Edward Gozalyan that one part of the
film, which is kept in the Museum-Institute of Armenian Genocide,
was found in 1994.

After watching the film with the pupils the three ministers conducted
a special lesson about the Genocide in different classrooms, as well
as about the state and the patriotism.

BOYAJIAN: MASS MEDIA BUTCHER THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
David B. Boyajian

Wicked Local Watertown
Posted Apr 21, 2010

Newton – Most reporters and other journalists in the mass media failed
to do due diligence and misled their audiences regarding last month’s
U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee vote in favor of Resolution 252,
which would reaffirm the Armenian genocide of 1915-1923.

Nearly all media, prior to and after the vote, falsely said or implied
that the House and the Federal government had never before recognized
the Armenian genocide.

The full House, in fact, passed resolutions in 1975 and 1984 that
acknowledged the Armenian genocide as "genocide." Proclamation 4838
by President Reagan in 1981 also affirmed the veracity of the genocide.

In 1996, the House limited economic aid to Turkey until it recognized
the genocide.

In a brief filed with the International Court of Justice (World Court)
at The Hague in 1951, the U.S. government cited just two genocides
in modern times: the one committed by Turkey against Armenians and
that committed by Nazi Germany.

Even when told of these earlier Armenian genocide acknowledgments,
few media reported them. Significantly, after each such genocide
reaffirmation, Ankara’s threats of retaliation against Washington
amounted to nothing and were quickly forgotten. No reporter, it
appears, has ever bothered to mention this fact.

For Turkey to complain obsessively about the House committee’s vote
reaffirming the Armenian genocide makes little sense considering that
the U.S. has already recognized that genocide at least five times.

Incredibly, it appears that no mainstream journalist has ever asked
Turkish leaders for an explanation, not that they could provide a
coherent one.

At the same time, the media obligingly volunteered their ideas about
how Turkey could (or is it should?) retaliate, such as shutting down
a NATO airbase or preventing American troops exiting Iraq to transit
Turkey. Nonsensically, journalists implicitly portrayed America as
having no leverage against Turkey and as being at its mercy.

Just the opposite is true. Ankara depends heavily on Washington
for advanced weaponry, investments and economic aid by U.S.-backed
institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund,
political support to join the European Union, and more.

Following the recent House committee vote, former British ambassador to
Armenia David Miller accurately observed that Turkey, like a "bully,"
will "bluster [and] threaten and in the end nothing will happen."

Nearly all media also "forgot" to mention that Turkey’s threats had
fallen flat against the nearly twenty countries whose legislative
bodies had already acknowledged the Armenian genocide. Indeed, insofar
as is known, Turkey’s trade with such countries went up substantially,
not down, after genocide recognition.

Among the many genocide acknowledgers that the media nearly always
"forget" to mention are Canada, France, Lebanon, Switzerland, and
Uruguay, as well as a UN sub-commission, World Council of Churches,
the Vatican, and the European Union Parliament.

Most reporters have also long preferred to depict the genocide
issue as a mere he-said-she-said quarrel between Armenians and
Turkey. Yet the International Association of Genocide Scholars,
the foremost organization of its kind, has recognized the Armenian
genocide several times and roundly criticized Turkey. Raphael Lemkin,
the Polish Jewish scholar who authored the UN Genocide Convention
of 1948 and who coined the word genocide, once declared on national
television, "I became interested in genocide because it happened to
the Armenians." Most journalists choose to "forget" these facts.

Media also dutifully reported Turkey’s opinion that academia, not the
U.S. Congress, is the proper place to discuss and recognize genocides.

They "forgot" that one or both houses of Congress have recognized
the Holocaust, and the Bosnian, Cambodian, Darfurian, and Ukrainian
"genocides." Thus, the public is unfairly led to believe that Armenian
Americans are asking Congress to do something unusual. Somehow
the media also "forgot" to report that over 50 American human
rights, ethnic, and religious organizations support Congressional
acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide.

In short, most mass media have done an abysmal, unprofessional job.

If the House, a U.S. president, and a federal filing with the World
Court have already affirmed and reaffirmed the Armenian genocide,
does Congress really need to pass the present genocide resolution? The
current resolution, which is non-binding, describes the genocide’s
history and America’s traditional support of Armenia in more detail
than previously approved ones.

Congressional reaffirmation will help to counter Turkey’s unending,
immoral denial campaigns and send a necessary signal to the U.S. State
Department that genocide denial harms American interests in the region.

For two decades, stability in the oil and gas-rich Caucasus/Caspian
region – undoubtedly the major flashpoint between the U.S. and Russia –
has been one of Washington’s most cherished goals.

Stability is impossible, however, as long as Turkey refuses to face up
to its crimes against Armenians and continues to needlessly blockade
Armenia. Turkey, 25 times larger and more populous than Armenia and
with 50 times the Gross Domestic Product, truly is a "bully."

The U.S. and other countries recently forced a set of "protocols"
onto Armenia that would allegedly "reconcile" it and Turkey. Contrary
to Turkish claims, Armenia quite rightfully maintains that it will
not let the protocols’ proposed joint Turkish-Armenian historical
commission question the veracity of the genocide. The genocide issue
cannot be wished away by sham U.S.-backed protocols, which, in any
case, Turkey presently refuses to ratify.

Without an unequivocal acknowledgment by Turkey of its hyper-violence
against Armenians, the region cannot be stabilized – with serious
geopolitical consequences for Washington and its allies.

The media, and the Obama administration, can help to avert this simply
by telling the American people the truth about the Armenian genocide.

CRIMINAL FIGHT IN NORK COMMUNITY

Lragir.am
10:30:23 – 19/04/2010

On Saturday evening a criminal fight occurred in Nork Community but it
did not result in skirmishes and shoot-out. The police arrived just
in time. Around 30 people were arrested. A great deal of weapon was
confiscated. A policeman told our reporter that there would be dead
people in case the police were late.

The photographer Gagik Shamshyan who witnessed this incident said
several dozens of cars arrived from different neighborhoods of Nork
Community and the region of Kotayk in front of the club near the
Military College. The matter of the fight was a plot of land. The local
"strongman" nicked Dmbuz was also there. The deputy chief of police
Hunan Poghosyan, the chief of police of Yerevan Nersik Nazaryan,
the head of the organized crime department Gagik Avetisyan arrived at
the scene. Gagik Shamshyan also told us that after the high-ranking
police officers had left, the deputy head of the organized crime
department Karen Babakekhyan arrived and hindered the reporters,
also shouting words of abuse.

"We will take them to the precinct and find out the details, surely
it was a fight of local "strongmen"," said a policeman.

In the meantime, witnesses told that the police burst into skirmishes
with women, broke into the nearby cafe and arrested the waitress.

"There was a shoot-out but nobody got injured or killed, they
had shot a car, when the police prevented," a policemen told our
reporter. The incident is said to be a fight between the Republicans
and the Bargavach Hayastan Party, about which the police had learned
beforehand, and the representatives of the criminal underworld
arrived there along with the criminal news report staff. Everything
seemed planned. In answer to the question if tomorrow we will see the
same cars driving freely in the street, as if nothing has happened,
the policeman said, "It’s quite possible that the owner of the car
is another person, and those who were here for the fight are other
people. But you will hardly see them at large. Although everything
is possible."

"Dmbuz is Chorni’s man, those are Tsarukyan’s people. This is a
Tsarukyan-Chorni fight, but we’ll see what this is all about," said
the guys in the street. The shot car was of Bargavach Hayastan Party.

By the way, Chorni is the nickname of the mayor of Yerevan Gagik
Beglaryan, and Gagik Tsarukyan is a member of parliament, the leader
of the Bargavach Hayastan Party.

DEDICATION OF THE FIRST MONUMENT IN LONDON IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE 1.5 MILLION VICTIMS OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

An Apricot Tree (Prunus Armenica) was dedicated as the first public
monument in England in memory of the 1.5 Million Victims of the
Armenian Genocide which took place in Ottoman Turkey between 1915
and 1923. The dedication took place in the London Borough of Ealing
on Saturday 17th of April, 2010. The plot of land and the tree were
made available by the Council of the London Borough of Ealing which
has the largest concentration of Armenians in London, numbering
about 10,000. The tree is in a prominent position in a green along
the Ealing High Street.

The Dedication Ceremony was conducted by the Primate of the Armenian
Church in the United Kingdom, the Very Rev. Vahan Hovhanessian and
a message was delivered on behalf of the British Armenian community
by Mr Ara H Palamoudian, Chairman of the Armenian Community & Church
Council of Great Britain. Also present was a member of the Armenian
Embassy representing the Ambassador, Dr Vahe Gabrielyan.

In his speech, Mr Palamoudian thanked the Council of the London
Borough of Ealing for their honourable gesture and for their courage in
resisting immense pressures against the planting of the commemorative
monument.

Speech given by Mr A. H. Palamoudian, Chairman of the Armenian
Community & Church Council of Great Britain, at the dedication ceremony
of an Apricot Tree as a Monument in memory of the 1.5 Million Victims
of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey:

Today is a momentous day for British Armenians.

Today we have taken another step in the journey towards securing
recognition by the British Government of the Armenian Genocide.

On behalf of the Armenian Community and Church Council of Great
Britain I, together with the 10,000 or so Armenians living in Ealing,
would like to thank the Council of the London Borough of Ealing and to
commend and congratulate them for their courage in resisting against
the racist bullying of Genocide deniers and for their honourable
decision to dedicate this piece of land and this tree to the memory
of the One and a Half Million Victims of the Armenian Genocide.

We hear noises and protestations of denial today, as we have heard for
the past 95 years. But the truth and the reality of the Genocide is
well known even to those who deny the truth for their own political
expediency.

Denial of the Genocide is racist and causes distress and humiliation
to the Armenian people and it is a violation of our dignity.

We and our children and our children’s children refuse, and will
continue to refuse, to be humiliated any longer, and we reject the
deniers.

Jesus said on the Cross, " forgive them Lord for they know not what
they do".

We now say to all those who are intent on denying the Armenian
Genocide: go and discover the truth !

Acknowledge the Holocaust that was perpetrated upon our parents and
our grandparents, and forgiveness is there to be had – for it is
divine to forgive.

However, GENOCIDE can never be forgotten.

This tree is a monument against Genocide, so that Genocide is never
forgotten and therefore never happens again. No matter against whom
perpetrated – be they Jews, Tootsies, Ruandans or Armenians.

This Monument will grow and will bear fruit and as it grows it will
even more forcefully remind the World that Genocide and the Victims
of Genocide can not be forgotten and that Genocide must never happen
again.

We are not here for a confrontation;

We are here to create a better world, a fairer world and a world where
Crimes against Humanity are condemned and purged, so that nations
are thus able to live together in harmony and neighbourly respect.

We, British Armenians, demand that our Government ceases
procrastinating and recognises the Armenian Genocide. And we invite the
deniers to open their eyes, to discover the truth and to admit that
truth; and I hope that next year they will be standing alongside us,
here, to honour the Victims of the Armenian Genocide and to voice
their condemnation of the racist crimes of the Ottoman Government,
and to pray with us for Genocide never to happen again.

APRIL 20, 2010

MGM Mirage to Become MGM Resorts International

ALEXANDRA BERZON

Las Vegas casino company MGM Mirage plans to change its corporate name to
MGM Resorts International, the company disclosed in a filing Tuesday.
"This name better reflects the fact that we are a family of hotels,"
spokesman Alan Feldman said.

Mr. Feldman said some people misinterpreted MGM Mirage name to mean the
company owned just two hotels-MGM Grand and Mirage.

The company also wanted to add "International" to the name to reflect its
intention to grow its presence internationally, Mr. Feldman said.

Right now the company is primarily tethered to Las Vegas, where it owns 10
casino resort complexes on the Las Vegas Strip, including City Center,
Bellagio and Mandalay Bay. The company owns half of a casino in Macau and
plans to spread such brands names as Bellagio in the Middle East and Asia
through a hospitality division.

The name MGM Mirage came about in 2000 when MGM Grand Inc., led by
billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, took over Mirage Resorts. Rival casino
impressario Steve Wynn had founded Mirage Resorts and developed for it such
iconic Las Vegas properties now owned by MGM Resorts as Mirage, Treasure
Island and Bellagio. Mr. Wynn went on to form a new company, Wynn Resorts,
which owns two casinos in las Vegas.

The name MGM Grand Inc. had its roots in Mr. Kerkorian’s entertainment
company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Mr. Feldman said it was important to current company leadership to retain
that heritage.

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