Boo-hoo!
A very surprising headline from AP which actually uses the t-word without "scare" quotes!
Where is your god now, Abu?
Many in terrorists' 'next generation' deadSo just who's in the real QUAGMIRE?
MADRID, Spain - They rose up quickly to take up Osama bin Laden's call for jihad, ruthless men in their 20s and 30s heralded as the next generation of global terror.
Two years later, 40 percent are dead, targets of a worldwide crackdown that claimed its biggest victory with the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida's front man in Iraq.
Where is your god now, Abu?
posted by RDS at 10:29 PM
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Unfortunately, as a former copy editor-in training, I can say with some certainty, that the real reason they didn't use scare quotes on "terrorists'" was that the whole line would have looked confusing:..."terrorists'" 'generation'. Wait and see if they do it again or not. :)))
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