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Roland Burris: “If I were a terrorist, I would not go after Chicago, I would not go after New York. You know where I would go? I would…”

On the recordJanuary 19, 2010
If I were a terrorist, I would not go after Chicago, I would not go after New York. You know where I would go? I would go to my hometown of Centralia, Illinois, where there are 14,000 people, and raise havoc in there which would scare Americans to death.
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Roland Burris
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Burris emphasizes the vulnerability of small towns to terrorist attacks.

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