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Old Sep 9, 2008 | 9:42 pm
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Originally Posted by bocastephen
This is old news...I posted about a Newsweek article almost 2 years ago which included photos of British Nationals (Anglo) who joined AQ and were seen and photographed in Pakistan at their training facility.

Some of the 'stan' countries have very caucasian-looking people, even Afghanistan has tribes of caucasian-looking people.

Racial profiling is nonsense - most of the people who've attacked the US in one form or another are red/white/blue Americans.
And all of it doesn't matter anyway. As has been pointed out:

1) you are statistically more likely to commit suicide than to die of a terror attack, so it is literally true that the guy in the mirror is a bigger threat than OBL

2) you are statistically more likely to die of a lightning strike

3) more people die in car accidents every year than ever died of terror incidents in 5000 years of recorded human history

Terror could increase 1000% and it would still be a statistically insignificant source of danger. Even if we had a 9-11 attack every month, that would still be a small fraction of the number killed in road accidents. Yet nobody freaks out about cars.

"Terror" is a big hoax.
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