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YankeyMCC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-26-06 06:08 PM
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A weakness this administration will never follow up on.
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The assessment also lays out weaknesses of the movement that analysts say must be exploited if its spread is to be slowed. For instance, they note that extremists want to see the establishment of strict Islamic governments in the Arab world — a development they say would be unpopular with most Muslims.

"Exposing the religious and political straitjacket that is implied by the jihadists' propaganda would help to divide them from the audiences they seek to persuade," the report says.
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From: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20060926/ap_on_go_co/terrorism_intelligence_27

This is a point that should be pounded on by the Dems because in order to fully exploit this the administration propagandists would have to come uncomfortably close to criticizing all extremist religious movements and that might led some (some of those who haven't already seen this) to wonder about the extremist religious right in this nation.



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