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29 Jul 2006 02:00 pm
Policing the Language
It's a classic tactic for ideological nutcases and, of course, the French. Genocidal religious fanatic Ahmadinejad takes a whack. Stuff like this must surely help the younger Persians to take him unseriously.
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