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To: veronica
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs David Satterfield angered Arabs Friday by saying that the Palestinian Intifada, or uprising against Israel, has become “a process of calculated terror.”

Oops! What he meant to say was "taping explosives to your body and detonating yourself in shopping areas is the sort of thoughtful and mature diplomacy we expect to yield meaningful political results with Israel."

Sorry for any confusion.

2 posted on 11/05/2001 5:17:05 AM PST by Ratatoskr
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To: Ratatoskr
Oops! What he meant to say was "taping explosives to your body and detonating yourself in shopping areas is the sort of thoughtful and mature diplomacy we expect to yield meaningful political results with Israel."

Sorry for any confusion.

Let me be the first to nominate you as Ambassador AT Large to the Middle East! If the tactics of these groups is not terrorism what do they call it?

5 posted on 11/05/2001 6:01:36 AM PST by Tunehead54
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"Oops! What he meant to say was "taping explosives to your body and detonating yourself in shopping areas is the sort of thoughtful and mature diplomacy we expect to yield meaningful political results with Israel."

Good one! BUMP!

6 posted on 11/05/2001 6:04:53 AM PST by cake_crumb
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