It was as if the world were asleep in 1979. No one knew that the genie of political Islam and Islamic terrorism was about to emerge from the magic bottle, and that the shifting sands of the Middle East would witness the fusion of communism and political Islam — two destructive schools of thought. Two schools blended together that, in Iran, ushered in the age of killers. The danger posed by the Shiite mullah was greater than that posed........

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