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Word: saladdins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Great Islamic warriors such as Saladdin, who drove the Crusaders from Jerusalem, fought according to a strict code that targeted combatants but showed mercy towards civilians - even when his enemies did not. Why have you abandoned this code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready for Your Close-up, Mr. Bin Laden? | 10/17/2001 | See Source »

...believed they could hasten Christ's return by capturing Jerusalem. In fact, it is precisely because of those associations that Osama bin Laden refers to the U.S. not as "imperialists" or even "the Great Satan," but simply as "crusaders" - casting himself as a latter-day Salah el-Din (or Saladdin), the man who eventually drove the Christian occupiers from Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting Bin Laden: The Politics of the Posse | 9/18/2001 | See Source »

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