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Friday, December 01, 2006
""Not all foreign affairs can be reduced to soundbites. This is why I was frustrated. One time I was on 'Nightline' and they said they would give me a long time: four minutes. Then I was on Al Jazeera where they told me that time would go by fast. They gave me 90 minutes. Here you have to make everything into cut or uncut soundbites," AbuKhalil said." (I told the UCLA reporter "cute" not "cut." I knew that he did not understand me. I repeated to him: "cute" and "uncute" but knew that he did not get that. I also asked him to write that I came to UCLA to test the theory that Middle East looking men get tasered. He did not write that.)