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...establish his credibility, Khaled led police to Rome's Villa Glori park, where they found the spot under a tree at which the terrorists hid four Kalashnikov machine guns and 15 hand grenades used in the airport attack. The safety plugs for the grenades were still there. He also directed authorities to Paris' Montparnasse Cemetery, where they found a bomb timing device in a toothpaste tube inside a mausoleum...
...intimately involved in its success in America, General Lafayette never realized that the achievement of liberty on the new continent owed as much to geography and British Blimpishness as to George Washington. His later attempts to translate American liberty into reality back home in France involved him in one glori ous absurdity after another. Before the French Revolution, he was a popular idol, and after it he might even have become head of state. Instead, his pride in his ideas and inability to compromise lodged him in prison, cost him his fortune in millions and, finally, made him a sort...
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