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'I think it was one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I've seen ... I havemade unambiguously clear, in Anglo-Saxon prose, that it is not to ever happen again.'
MICHAEL CHERTOFF, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, blasting FEMA employees for staging a fake news conference about assisting the victims of the California wildfires

'A friend of a friend of mine is a member of al-Qaeda involved in a bombing in Bali.'
KUNIO HATOYAMA, Japanese Justice Minister, who said the alleged terrorist had repeatedly entered Japan using "different...

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