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Fiction

SheilaT

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8. Mirage

Reply to DUgosh (Original post)

Tue Sep 17, 2013, 09:49 AM

Sep 2013

by Matt Ruff.

9/11/01 was 9 November, 2001, and it was the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, second largest city in the United Arab States, that were brought down by Christian fundamentalists. Another plane flew into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh, and a fourth plane was brought down by the passengers.

I'm all of 30 pages into it and it's very good so far.

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