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Date: 2005-10-18 (Tuesday)
“al-Qaida hopes to rally the Muslim masses, overthrow the moderate governments of the region, and re-establish the Islamic caliphate that . . . would rule from Spain to Indonesia and beyond”.
-- Stephen Hadley, USA national security adviser, at Council on Foreign Relations in New York




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