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To: cartan
“Both players stressed that Materazzi's comments had been defamatory but not of a racist nature,” FIFA said in a statement.

So who made the original allegation that Materzazzi called Zidane "a dirty terrorist?" And even if he did, "dirty terrorist" isn't a racist comment.

3 posted on 07/20/2006 7:19:36 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo
So who made the original allegation that Materazzi called Zidane “a dirty terrorist?”
Good question. Zidane certainly didn't. I suppose some journalist wanted to seem particularly concerned about racism and diversity issues...
6 posted on 07/20/2006 7:23:48 AM PDT by cartan
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