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Article: Czechoslovakia on their minds: neocon news flash: Hitler invades Georgia.
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- The American Conservative
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- August 25, 2008
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These brief illuminations suggest but don't fully reveal what happened to "The Missing Girls of Iraq," as Time called them in 2006. They may be dancing on the stages of Damascus nightclubs, begging on street corners, tying on suicide-bomber vests, or getting murdered by their own families.
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