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"March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy."
JOSÉ MARÍA AZNAR, Prime Minister of Spain, on the train bombings in Madrid that killed as many as 200 people

"When I believed that someone was misconstruing intelligence, I said something about it."
GEORGE TENET, CIA director, when asked whether he confronted Administration officials who made misleading public statements regarding U.S. intelligence on Iraq

"They have the mentality of colonialists—all white people are like that."
ABUBAKAR BA'ASYIR, Indonesian Muslim cleric accused of being the spiritual head of a terror group,...

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