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Kurbaan – Now Serving “Terror Concoction Vomit Curry”

November 20th, 2009 at 05:11 pm
You are a Pakistani national and now you wish to terrorize the US. How should you go about it ? Lets see, the most effective way for you would be to cross into the “friendly”...

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