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« on: August 09, 2004, 02:49:05 PM »
It's obvious and clear, but about time someone put it in print.
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« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2004, 03:06:49 PM »
That's pretty cool. I had no idea about half of that stuff.

It's interesting that Al Qaeda is a name that was hung on "them" by external sources.
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« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2004, 05:36:17 PM »
Marketing is the only true evil.
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« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2004, 06:10:02 PM »
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It's interesting that Al Qaeda is a name that was hung on "them" by external sources.

Well, once upon a time it made sense as a name as both they and the Taliban were the "base movement" of CIA mujehadin operations in Afghanistan against the Red Army incursions. Ironically, both organizations probably now appear in the intelligence dictionary next to the entry for 'blowback.' The only other possibly more disastrous blowback would be the Israeli creation of HAMAS.  :roll:
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« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2004, 08:05:37 PM »
It's funny how you never hear about that part of it either. The CIA training/financing back in the 80's.

It almost wants to make you believe in the "Bush" engineered the whole September 11th thing to distract people from the stolen election/shitty job he was doing.
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