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The politics of memory

September 17, 2008 - 4:51 pm - by Richard Fernandez
sirius_sir
2008-09-18 06:09:34

The magazine came within an ace of accidentally admitting that Al Qaeda’s strategic home is in the Arabian Peninsula, not in Afghanistan… But Newsweek couldn’t resist adding: “Are Al Qaeda fighters returning home…?

That seems pretty much an outright admission to me, albeit one the editors at Newsweek either didn’t intend or assumed the common reader wouldn’t *quite* grasp.