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Posted: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 8:54 AM |

It was Talabani, not al-Maliki, lunching at Le-Bec

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Security was so good that our spies misidentified the Iraqi dignitary who was lunching Friday at Le-Bec Fin (1523 Walnut). It was not Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, lunching Friday at Le-Bec Fin as we had reported, but rather Iraq's President Jalal Talabani, who lunched at the restaurant while an army of security waited outside.

Posted by Dan Gross @ 8:54 AM Permalink | File Under: Celeb Spottings | 9 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:41 AM, 09/20/2008

And we are supposed to care. C'mon Grossie, forget the diplomats and get back to where AJ Feeley is eating lunch these days.

— mick314

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:16 PM, 09/20/2008

They've gotta spend the Bush/Petraeus surge somewhere...

— ahab

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:44 PM, 09/20/2008

My guess is he had the soup. Doesn't appear that the man has his front teeth.

— BurbGuy

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:40 PM, 09/20/2008

Maybe its me (24 yrs old and black) but I seem to think that the guy they put in power where are soldiers are deployed eating at a Philadelphia restaurant is quite ironic. Considering theres a city in the Middle East named Philadelphia too: Anybody care to know which city was built first?

— low2behold

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:49 AM, 09/21/2008

Isn't this special, This guy used to be on our Terrorist List, and still should be.

— Ed_Tilton

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:26 PM, 09/23/2008

The Taliban was eating at Le Bec Fin? He's scheduled to be appeear on "Dancing with the Terrorists" tonight. I heard Saddam was there too..just hanging out.

— natedog

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