Moosa announced at the outset of his interview with Mr. Todd that the public should listen to him rather than the CSP authors "Cause I'm an expert and they are not, " it might be thought that his comments would have been based on the established Islamic law he no doubt studied at Darul Ulum Nadwatul.

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Mr. BOWEN: Well, the insurgency continues, but I'm not willing to draw a cause and effect analysis between how we're doing on the reconstruction front and the level of insurgency.

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"I'm not sure that it is correct to say that medical problems were the direct cause of all of these bankruptcies, " he says.

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