Some interesting facts about the middle east

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http://www.shrc.org/english/99reports/18021999.htm

http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/06/20/p1s3.htm


http://www.apologeticsindex.org/a21.html

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more

http://archives.tconline.org/Stories/april02/fc4.html

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The Druze

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/D/Druze.asp

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more on the Druze

http://i-cias.com/e.o/druze.htm

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The assassins

http://i-cias.com/e.o/assassins.htm

Note this : -
" The main theme is that the Assassins performed their acts under strong intoxication of hashish, resulting in their own deaths, but with the promise of immediate entry to paradise. A paradise that had been staged for them during their training at the Alamut, a paradise of sweet food and wine and beautiful and willing women."

Alamut is an Assassin fortress.

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The plot thickens. A Druze, Hare Krishna connection.

http://www.krishna.com/newsite/printarticles/36_5/druze.html