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Media uses Radical Islamist, not terrorist, to describe a front for Al Qaida.- Halleluia!!!

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Submitted by Svetlanatchkah (United States), Apr 14, 2009 at 02:20

"...A radical Islamist group thought to be a front for al Qaida in has claimed responsibility for a Friday suicide bombing that killed five U.S. soldiers in the northern city of .The attack, the single deadliest on Americans here in more than a year, also killed two Iraqi ."...national police officersMosulIraq

Could not believe in my eyes. are things turning around, or b/c the source is McClatchy (not AP), but it is on Yahoo News.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090413/wl_mcclatchy/3211522

Why didn't they use Radical Islamic OR Islamist only, I do not know.

Radical Islamist sounds repetitive- perhaps with the will to emphasize!!!

With love for Dr. Pipes's work & fantastic endurance.

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