[SJackson]

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"Today we are confronted with a stateless threat that does not have at the strategic level targetable entities: no capitals, no economic base, no military formations or installations," states a new Pentagon briefing paper I've obtained.

Mecca and Medina are the capitols.

[KDD]

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[Joan Kerrey]

Military brass want a better understanding of what's motivating the insurgents in Iraq and the terrorists around the globe

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I would have hoped that we had already gone through this exercise. It appears to me that we're looking for reasons to deny that Islam is a Fascist ideology as well as a religion. It's both and until we recognize that fact we ain't gonna make any headway.

There may be Muslims who are peaceful just as there are Catholics who approve of abortion or birth control but the Muslim religion itself is anything but peaceful.

Let's stop saying this "Islam is a relgion of peace" and start challenging it's teachings and start putting so called Islamic leaders on the spot publicly and officially.