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  • noun Plural form of extremist.

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  • For instance, when a massive jihadist plot to blow up ten airliners over the Atlantic and kill thousands was foiled in 2006, then-chief of homeland security Michael Chertoff briefed his agency using only the word extremists to describe the plotters—no mention of Islam.

    HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010

  • For instance, when a massive jihadist plot to blow up ten airliners over the Atlantic and kill thousands was foiled in 2006, then-chief of homeland security Michael Chertoff briefed his agency using only the word extremists to describe the plotters—no mention of Islam.

    HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010

  • DOBBS: President Bush said it's in the United States 'interest to help Iraq defeat what he called extremists and radicals.

    CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2007 2007

  • BLITZER: The Democrats are all blaming what they call extremists in the Republican Party.

    CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2005 2005

  • ARENA: But Mueller did say agents have identified and are monitoring what he called extremists living in the United States.

    CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2005 2005

  • And so the government is taking quite a lot of comfort in that, while at the same time knowing that there's a certain sector of this population, what they call extremists, who do support the Taliban.

    CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2001 2001

  • Askutri said his men took the arms to stop them being used by Gaddafi loyalists or what he described as extremists.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • The connections between PAN and right wing Catholic extremists is not a recent thing.

    Sex education 2009

  • The connections between PAN and right wing Catholic extremists is not a recent thing.

    Sex education 2009

  • The day that Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation caves to political extremists is the day that half of this country drops their support for their work.

    Hadassah Lieberman under attack over industry ties 2009

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