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On the recordJuly 6, 2011
Let me just--to me, that is very disturbing. You say that they have a presence in the United States and North America generally so as to have leverage, to be positioned that if they are attacked, they can attack.
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Brian Higgins
Democratic · New York

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Higgins expresses concern over terrorist groups having leverage in North America.

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