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Article: George W. Bush declares war on radical Islam - finally
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- Jerusalem Post
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- October 11, 2005
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DANIEL PIPES
Jerusalem Post
10-11-2005
Headline: George W. Bush declares war on radical Islam - finally
Byline: DANIEL PIPES
Edition; Daily
Section: Opinion
Page: 16
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 -- A courageous speech by George W. Bush last week began a new era in what he calls the "war on terror." To comprehend its full significance requires some background. Islamists (supporters of radical Islam) began their war on the United States in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini took power in Iran and later that year his supporters seized the US embassy in Teheran.
For the next 22 years, however, Americans thought they faced merely a criminal problem and failed to see that war had been declared on them. For ...