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Old 02-08-2006, 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze
I was under the impression that such celebrations were rare. That was so awful it made me physically ill to see it.
It's important to realise that your average man-in-the-street in Iraq, Syria, Iran etc is even less well-informed than over there in the US. What they are told through their "media" may or may not bear some remote resemblance to what actually goes on in the world. Seeing people rejoicing in the street over 9/11 was hard to take, but we can only vaguely assume that they were told the true details. I also recall seeing people over there weeping when they saw the actual images on the TV. News is spread in different ways over there and is slanted so radically sometimes you wouldn't believe.
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