New Terrorist Weapon: Bad Graphic Design


	New Terrorist Weapon: Bad Graphic Design

sylvan3

7-9-2007 9:13 PM

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terrorism, terror, terrorist, graphic design, images, weird, logo, logos, war

sylvan3 says:

I had never though about it before, but it would make sense that terrorist groups would need a logo of some sort. How odd! I think they need to find some new graphic designers.

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