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I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile.
Condoleezza Rice
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Condoleezza Rice
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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