# Al Queda has a membership application form?  Call me a skeptic but...

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**Created:** [June 1, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-has-a-membership-application-form-call-me-a-skeptic-but/248162 "2004-06-01T23:07:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-has-a-membership-application-form-call-me-a-skeptic-but/248162/21 "2004-06-02T22:32:25Z")

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Sponsors! So it’s less a job application than say, a country-club membership application! Well that puts a whole new spin on things.

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-queda-has-a-membership-application-form-call-me-a-skeptic-but/248162/22 "2004-06-02T22:38:54Z")

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> [@Billdo](#):
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> The Smoking Gun (among other places) has a copy of the [Defense Department Report](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0601042padilla1.html) on Padilla. On page 2, it describes the application.

If true, that’s not far off what we were saying in this thread…even asking him for foreign-language skills!

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