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Reader comment on item: But He Was Good to His Mother
Submitted by Mick jackson (United States), Dec 3, 2003 at 14:54
I do not think you can deduce that these guys were decent guys based on testimony after the terrorist act. Many such statements are made deliberately to eulogize the dead or as a character reference for those captured.
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