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To: LindyBill who wrote (156664)	2/5/2006 4:26:13 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793891

This is the link where Rumsfeld is quoted on the true aim of Islamists: msnbc.msn.com Opening the second day of the 42nd annual Munich security conference, a gathering that defense experts and policy-makers traditionally use for frank exchanges, Rumsfeld said violent extremism was a danger faced by Europe as much as the United States. He said Islamic militants were on the move and had to be checked. “They seek to take over governments from North Africa to Southeast Asia and to re-establish a caliphate they hope, one day, will include every continent,” he said. “They have designed and distributed a map where national borders are erased and replaced by a global extremist empire. “Today our countries have another choice to make — we could choose to pretend, as some suggest, that the enemy is not at our doorstep; we could choose to believe, as some contend, that the threat is exaggerated,” he said. “But ... what if they are wrong?”