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It was a deeply saddening time.
To the second question, what America could do, al Qaeda's answer was that America should abandon the Middle East, convert to Islam, and end the immorality and godlessness of its society and culture:"It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind."
In this connection it is saddening to observe the slow but certain deteriation [ sic ] in prisoners, some with fine feelings, until their fiancees are spoken of as chromos and their wives as c-nt” (p.