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By Nina Maria Potts Brussels 07 March 2008 The glorification of terrorism is not a crime -- that is the word from the European Parliament, which recently voted against a proposal calling on EU countries to change the definition of terrorist offenses.

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VOA标准英语2008年-Terrorism Talks Overshadow South Asian Summit

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