Picture This: Art Therapy 101 for Terrorists

January 2nd, 2010 admin

In an earlier post we mentioned that two of the al Qaeda leaders believed to be behind the failed terror attack on flight 253 were released after successfully completing art therapy classes. Many of our readers thought the comment was ‘tongue in cheek’. Unfortunately, it wasn’t.


Originally posted on NationalTerrorAlert

 
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