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Pakistani journalist and author Ahmed Rashid speaks at the book launch for ‘Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West,’ written by Benazir Bhutto, and released posthumously, on February 12, 2008 in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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