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It was the tiny terror's rehearsal for "Answered Prayers."
Strange, If Tru James Campbell 2011
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The Prince Charles Cinema did it with the South Park movie last year, but now they extend audience-participation cinema even further past its usual Rocky Horror/Sound Of Music remit with this special screening of Matt Stone and Trey Parker's – and in retrospect, the war on terror's – finest movie moment.
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Despite one thousand hours of writing a narrator with sufficient love to escape terror's cycle of violence and retribution, in those early moments all I wanted was vengeance against the murderers.
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The war on terror's unprecedented nature only makes Lincoln's rule even more critical.
From Gettysburg to Anwar al-Awlaki John Yoo 2011
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In this way, they fit well with the now decade-old war on terror's campaign against will-o-the-wisps.
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Let's hope the answer to the war on terror's central question didn't get lost among those 22 million messages.
Beyond the Coke formula, other secrets that need telling 2011
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But I am pointing out that, by repeating for decades this mantra of "desperation" as the cause of calculated acts of politically or religiously motivated terrorism, with little investigation into terror's real causes, liberal media and academia have helped to create a climate in which justification of terrorism is by no means deviant.
Heather Robinson: Maj. Nidal Hasan and the "Desperation Explanation" 2009
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Yet terrorism regained its hold on the public consciousness with the attacks, prompting myriad columns on how to deal with terror's latest manifestation.
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Now that I am far from home, I thought it was only Kashmir that brought the constant reminder of religious terror's presence in my life.
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Terror's foot soldiers -- those recruited to self-detonate -- may be targeted for recruitment in part because of personal desperation, but their personal problems do not drive terror's engines and are a grossly inadequate explanation for terrorism.
Heather Robinson: Maj. Nidal Hasan and the "Desperation Explanation" 2009
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