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I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act
Jurgen Habermas
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Jurgen Habermas
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: June 18
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Dusseldorf
Jurgen Habermas
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