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In this context, Clarke prepared a paper for a political-military plan he called Delenda (ph) from the Latin, "to destroy."
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President Clinton even ad Sandy Berger and Richard Clarke draw up what it appears to have been a very successful plan known as the Delenda plan to execute this promise.
Path to 9/11: Hugh Hewitt Accuses Me of Airbrushing History 2006
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The 9/11 Commission report mentions a plan called Delenda, launched by then counter-terror czar Richard Clarke after the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa.
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President Clinton even ad Sandy Berger and Richard Clarke draw up what it appears to have been a very successful plan known as the Delenda plan to execute this promise.
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The fact is that what we were presented on January the 25th was a set of ideas and a paper, most of which was about what the Clinton administration had done and something called the Delenda plan which had been considered in 1998 and never adopted.
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At Clinton's request, Clarke produced a combined political and military plan for the destruction of al-Qaeda, entitled ” appropriately for an alumnus of the Boston Latin School ” "Delenda" after Cato the Elder's injunction "Carthago delenda est" ” Carthage must be destroyed.
A Matter of Truth Urquhart, Brian 2004
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Somebody suggested that it might be Eric Flint's "Cathargo Delenda Est", collected in the anthology Foreign Legions.
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Carthago Delenda Est leave no stone standing upon another, plow the streets and salt the earth so that nothing grows there again.
Democrats declare war on West Virginia. Again. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Carthago Delenda Est leave no stone standing upon another, plow the streets and salt the earth so that nothing grows there again.
Democrats declare war on West Virginia. Again. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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My friends, the watchword shouldn't be Ad Astra, or on the other side NASA Delenda Est ...
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