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If you were watching the Winter Olympic opening ceremonies on television you will never for the scene for the rest of your life.

The beauty of the ceremonies...the athletes marching through the stadium...and then the climax. The camera shows President Bush in the stands with some of the athletes...and then cuts back to the track, showing the small Lebanese delegation. Suddenly, the Lebanese flag-carrier stops, puts down his flag, and shouts out defiantly in Arabic "Long live Osama Bin Laden and the gallant fighters of Al-Qaida"...and before he can be stopped presses a button on the watch around his wrist...

Which is the last we see before our televisions lose the signal, as the stadium and all around it for a distance are vaporized in a nuclear explosion later estimated at 100 kilotons.
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