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Minority Report
Hitchens, Christopher | October 22, 2001 issue

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The article presents information on various developments related to terrorism. The author have long kept September 11 as a day of mourning, because it was on that date in 1973 that Salvador Allende was murdered and Chilean democracy assassinated along with him. jobs" and sabotage. It took the Chilean opposition many years of patient struggle to regain their country and their democracy. There are others who mourn September 11 because it was on that day in 1683 that the hitherto unstoppable armies of Islam were defeated by a Polish general outside the gates of Vienna. The date marks the closest that proselytizing Islam ever came to making itself a superpower by military conquest.

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TERRORISM; DEMOCRACY; POLITICAL doctrines; ISLAM; ARMIES; UNITED States
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