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The Afghan
The word “terror” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2010. Today the opening carries none. 4 remain further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
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The Afghan is a 2006 thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth , and concerns a planned Al Qaeda terrorist attack to take place against an unspecified target. As with other Forsyth novels, the full details of the plot are not revealed until the end. The story takes place in Indonesia , Pakistan , Guantanamo Bay , Trinidad and Tobago , Washington state and onboard various ships sailing the high seas.1
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Today
“terror” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 4. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is
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Then
a 2006 thriller novel by frederick forsyth
Now
a 2006 thriller novel by british writer frederick forsyth
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