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To: Red Badger

Fighting Moslem terrorists since Thomas Jefferson sent them to Africa ..

the First Barbary War. The war, which lasted from 1801 to 1805, was the first of two wars fought between the United States and the Northwest African Berber Muslim states known collectively as the Barbary States..

President Thomas Jefferson refused to pay the high tributes demanded by the Barbary states and because they were seizing American merchant ships and enslaving their crew for high ransoms

http://www.inquisitr.com/1593416/how-did-thomas-jefferson-one-of-the-u-s-establishing-fathers-respond-to-islam-in-1801/


8 posted on 11/10/2014 7:03:46 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

To the shores of Tripoli.............................


10 posted on 11/10/2014 7:06:01 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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