Talk:Al-Qaeda: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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Also why remove Cooks quote and not Saad Al-Faqih assertion about the Al Ansar guesthouse, which talks of a computer system situated there? The statement that al-qaeda can also refer to a military base is unsourced also. Certainly dictionaries refer to 'the base'. [[User:Rowantoad|Rowantoad]] ([[User talk:Rowantoad|talk]]) 04:06, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

:No, it is not significant at all that Cook once said something stupid. He is not and never was an expert on this topic, and here he made an obvious mistake. There is no reason to humiliate him posthumously by enshrining this minor mistake into an encyclopedia. [[User:Commodore Sloat|csloat]] ([[User talk:Commodore Sloat|talk]]) 08:33, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

:It is only stupid in your opinion and unsignificant in your opinion. Cook was the foreign secretary with responsibilty for the British Secret Intelligence Service receiving daily intelligence briefings. He was also a member of Tony Blairs cabinet. He was a terrorism expert. He resigned on a position of principle from cabinet due to what he knew and placed that article in the guardian. I was not aware that people are not quoted posthumously incase this humiliates them, I have not seen cases of quotes removed or histories smoothed before. It is not for you to decide if he would or would not want this quoted. You cannot remove very relevant quotes because you do not agree with them.[[User:Rowantoad|Rowantoad]] ([[User talk:Rowantoad|talk]]) 21:28, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

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