“The current armed clashes, which now number into tens, will spiral up to hundred of armed

“The current armed clashes, which now number into tens, will spiral up to hundred of armed clashes.”

Mullah Omar

The Taliban’s fugitive leader, in a statement posted on a Web site quoting, promising more violence in Afghanistan.

“I know that when you played the African-American president of the United States, most people thought that would happen when a comet hit. But wonder of wonders, fiction has become true.”

Condoleezza Rice

The Secretary of State, in a salute to Kennedy Center honoree Morgan Freeman, who once played the president in the movie “Deep Impact.”

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