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- noun Plural form of
extremist .
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For instance, when a massive jihadist plot to blow up ten airliners over the Atlantic and kill thousands was foiled in 2006, then-chief of homeland security Michael Chertoff briefed his agency using only the word extremists to describe the plotters—no mention of Islam.
HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010
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For instance, when a massive jihadist plot to blow up ten airliners over the Atlantic and kill thousands was foiled in 2006, then-chief of homeland security Michael Chertoff briefed his agency using only the word extremists to describe the plotters—no mention of Islam.
HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010
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DOBBS: President Bush said it's in the United States 'interest to help Iraq defeat what he called extremists and radicals.
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BLITZER: The Democrats are all blaming what they call extremists in the Republican Party.
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ARENA: But Mueller did say agents have identified and are monitoring what he called extremists living in the United States.
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And so the government is taking quite a lot of comfort in that, while at the same time knowing that there's a certain sector of this population, what they call extremists, who do support the Taliban.
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Askutri said his men took the arms to stop them being used by Gaddafi loyalists or what he described as extremists.
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The connections between PAN and right wing Catholic extremists is not a recent thing.
Sex education 2009
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The connections between PAN and right wing Catholic extremists is not a recent thing.
Sex education 2009
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The day that Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation caves to political extremists is the day that half of this country drops their support for their work.
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