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May 09, 2011

"There was no escape route, no tunnels, not even false rooms. "

- JACK REEDa Rhode Island Democrat who serves on the U.S. Armed Services Committee, saying he was struck that Osama bin Laden was not prepared for the type of attack American troops carried out on the master terrorist's Pakistan compound early this month
March 31, 2010

"None of us alive have seen the flooding that we are experiencing now or going to experience. This is unprecedented in our state's history."

- DON CARCIERI,Rhode Island governor, on the record-breaking Northeast rains that have forced hundreds of people from their homes; Rhode Island has endured its worst flooding in a century
February 24, 2011

"I didn't feel anything unusual going on."

- JACK REED,Democratic Senator from Rhode Island, on the claims that an Army general ordered a "psychological operations" team in Afghanistan to use propaganda tactics to influence visiting members of Congress to support additional war funding

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