Exercise in futility
Posted: November 5, 2009 at 4:13 a.m.
“All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written ‘al-Qa’ida’ in order to make generals race there, and we cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses—without their achieving anything of note.”—Osama bin Laden, November 2004
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Editorial, Pages 15 on 11/05/2009
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