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"ref": "1981, Terrence Prittie, Whose Jerusalem?, page 72:",
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"text": "Suddenly, one of the cadre appeared from out of the darkness. \"Hello, soldier\", he said. \"Do you have a light?” “Sure,” Jack replied, digging into his pocket for a book of matches. “Soldier! You are dead!” exclaimed the cadre. Jack had failed to challenge the infiltrator. The password was “Bronx”, the counter password was “Bombers”.",
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"ref": "2019 April 12, James Griffiths and Manveena Suri, “Outrage over BJP promise to ‘remove every single infiltrator’ from India”, in CNN:",
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