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Where the heck were ya?

Totally OT

http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/11300000aaa0255b.upi&Sys=siteia&Fid=WORLDNEW&Type=News&Filter=World%20News

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw;

[...]He cast the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as a direct assault on the Islamic faith itself,..."

These acts of terror, he said, were "nothing whatever to do with Islam," ...[...]

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http://www.walidphares.com/artman/publish/article_415.shtml

AL JAZEERA "POLLS" SHOWS 73% SUPPORT IRAQ ATTACKS(against US/Coalition)

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http://zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=869

By a margin of 76% to 7%, Muslims back the Kerry/Edwards ticket over the incumbent Bush/Cheney ticket.

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11479783%5E421,00.html

A LEADING Islamic cleric was discovered returning to Sydney with a 150-page notebook on tactics for warfare, intelligence and martyrdom, a court has been told.

[...]focuses on "infiltration, deception tactics, martyrdom and the euphoria of fighting a jihad outside one's borders".

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http://siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications10504&Category=publications&Subcategory=0

26 Saudi scholars addressed a message to the Iraqi people in which the scholars call upon them to unite, resist the occupation, and stop internal fighting.

The message was posted to the IslamToday.net website of Salman Al-Awda, a well-known cleric who was jailed in Saudi Arabia in the past for his radical rhetoric.

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[Leftists(?) give alot of attention to the scholars(?)]
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/11/1703879.php

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30November04: Bush thanked the hospitable Canadians for waving at him "with all five fingers."

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http://instapundit.com/archives/019440.php

HELPING THE TROOPS: Reader Ron Ford sends this very comprehensive list of support-the-troops websites...

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