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Chris Smith: It is all too convenient to suggest that somehow just because there are deprivations, somehow people then automatically…

On the recordJuly 9, 2012
It is all too convenient to suggest that somehow just because there are deprivations, somehow people then automatically know Osama bin Laden was rich.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Smith critiques the oversimplification of poverty as a cause for terrorism.

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