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On the recordFebruary 25, 2007
if we're worried about failed states, that -- countries that are on the edge of poverty and disease and malnutrition and no employment or very little employment, those are potential areas for the breeding grounds of terrorism.

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Cohen identifies failed states as breeding grounds for terrorism.

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