[SJackson]

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[dennisw]

Mecca     Medina    Qom     then work your way down the list. The Jihad thinks they can hit us with abandon? Well the Jihad has a few, more than a few, sitting ducks of it's own.

Fri Nov 15, 9:51 AM ET

Worshippers attend Friday prayers at the Haram al-Sharif in front of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem on the second Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, November 15, 2002. The stormy Israeli election campaign, accompanied by a fresh surge of Israeli-Palestinian violence, is expected to delay international peacemaking and deepen regional uncertainty ahead of a possible U.S. war on Iraq. REUTERS/Mahfouz Abu Turk