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I was on al-Jazeera English yesterday talking about the recent attempted attack.

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Gregory Johnsen

December 21, 2010

I was on al-Jazeera English yesterday talking about the recent attempted attack.

I was on al-Jazeera English yesterday talking about the recent attempted attack.

Gregory Johnsen

Near East Studies Scholar, Princeton University

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