“I seek the spread of freedom and democracy in the way that satisfies God. [Americans] have planned and paved the ways for a long time, but it is God who is the real planner -- and the proof of this is the fall of the American twin towers[…]a miracle from God.”

—  Muqtada Sadr

Iraqi cleric calls 9/11 'miracle from God' http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/03/26/iraq.main/, CNN, March 27, 2004.

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