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    <body><![CDATA[I felt this book kept repeating itself and could have told me in about a 3 page journal article what it did in a 188 page book. I didn't finish the last 35 pages because I just couldn't read it anymore.  I did find it interesting about the smaller attacks on infrastructure, rather than taking out th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46466680">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good, informative overview of the ways in which global terrorists are increasingly using an open source model to devise and refine &quot;system disruption&quot; attacks. ]]></body>
    
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