Trackback: from Kenya to Cromwell?

[ by Charles Cameron — Kenyan jihadist mag, and the morphing of a quote from grenades to planes to maybe swords? ]

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Grenades:

If our words could have reached you by mouth, then they would not have been sent by grenades.

Abu-Usama in Gaidi Mtaani, the new Swahili jihadist magazine, issue #1 p. 14 — h/t Aaron Zelin

Planes:

If our messages had been able to reach you through words, we wouldn’t have been delivering them through planes.

Osama bin Laden, quoted in WaPo, Jan 2010.

Swords:

Well, Oliver, when men run out of words, they reach for their swords.

Oliver Cromwell to his son, in Cromwell (1970)