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struggle4progress

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Mon Jan 30, 2017, 08:46 PM Jan 2017

Travel ban wouldn't have stopped deadly terrorists

By Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst, and David Sterman
Updated 1:47 PM ET, Mon January 30, 2017

Twelve terrorists have conducted deadly jihadist terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11, killing a total of 94 people. None of those twelve -- who are all American citizens or legal residents -- emigrated from or were born into a family that emigrated from a country that is the subject of the Trump administration's travel ban.

Indeed, seven of the twelve terrorists are native-born U.S. citizens, hailing from cities such as Memphis and Arlington, Virginia, according to research by New America. And none of the 9/11 attackers came from any of the seven countries listed by Trump's executive order ...


http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/30/opinions/travel-ban-wouldnt-have-stopped-these-deadly-terrorists-bergen-sterman/index.html

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Travel ban wouldn't have stopped deadly terrorists (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2017 OP
Because that isn't the point of this. This is a "Show of force" that won't affect any of trumps The_Casual_Observer Jan 2017 #1
 

The_Casual_Observer

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1. Because that isn't the point of this. This is a "Show of force" that won't affect any of trumps
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 09:01 PM
Jan 2017

business activities in the rest of the world. It's all madness.

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