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Old 11-01-2004, 12:48 PM
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Default Re: Corrected Translation of Bin-Laden\'s Threat: to U.S. \"STATES\"

I just looked on the MEMRI site for the actual article and found this footnote:

"2) "Wilaya" refers specifically to a U.S. state; it would never refer to an independent country. The term for such a country is "Dawla.""

Kind of hard to argue with that, presuming it is correct. Would you actually trust CNN to make a better Arabic translation than a collection of Arabic experts, and Islamist site(s)?
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