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Bible quotes in Pentagon papers remind of 'clash of civilisations'

Intelligence reports are the last thing one would expect to contain biblical quotations, but in the beginning of the war in Iraq a series of briefs for then US defence secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and others quoted from the Bible - giving fodder to the theory of 'clash of civilisations'.5:30 PM on May 18