Posted by: zanshin, 2009-02-23 01:54

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Date: 2009-02-17 (Tuesday)
"I think it's still possible for us to stamp out al-Qaeda to make sure that extremism is not expanding but rather is contracting.
I think all those goals are still possible [ ... ]
-- Barack Obama, President of the USA, in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp






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