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Thursday, June 28, 2001

We drove the US out of three Arab countries by just threatening to hit them

"The Americans are afraid of sustaining even one casualty to their soldiers, they don't trust their own intelligence or weak Arab allies to protect them, and they have no military answer for our threat. I love America. The Bush people want to spend $100 billion on a missile defense shield to deal with a threat that doesn't yet exist, and they run away from the threat that already exists."

Khilafah. A discussion of missiles and deterrents. "Remember when four Russian diplomats were kidnapped in Beirut in 1985? The Russians kidnapped a member of the kidnappers' group, chopped off one of his body parts and sent it back in the mail. Presto! The Russians were released. This isn't Norway out here."'

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