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At present the full text is available at Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0...39.html?page=2
I would argue that had this man been brown skinned and named Hassan, holding every other variable constant including his suicide note, this would be played in the media as a terrorist attack (even though, strictly speaking, it is not in that although he had political grievances, his act was not meant to influence the political process).
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