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Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands. Each and every state that does not tamper with our security will have automatically assured its own security.
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Videotape broadcast on al-Jazeera TV as reported in a BBC article (29 October 2004)

 

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