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Thursday, November 4, 2010

In Yemen Bomb Plot, 2 Darkly Historical Inside Jokes (reported in the New York Times)

"Those who forget history..."

To me, one of the messages they are sending is that they know the history of the West better than we do. It took several days before our newspapers twigged to the addressees' names, and I can just imagine our security organizations running around trying to figure out who the heck Diego Deza and Reynald Krak were...

Full article: In Yemen Bomb Plot, 2 Darkly Historical Inside Jokes - NYTimes.com

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