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Gov. Haley Barbour was on Neil Cavuto’s show Friday, during which he joined the chorus of Republicans claiming that there was never another terrorist attack on American soil after the 9/11 attacks while George W. Bush was president.

From News Hound:

As Media Matters points out, in 2001, Richard Reid, the “shoe bomber” tried to blow up an American Airlines plane bound for Miami, in order to “carry out terrorist operations for Al-Qaeda.”

In 2002, there was an attack at the El-Al ticket counter at LAX airport. Two years later, the Justice Department said the attack, which killed two people, was an act of “international terrorism.”

In 2006, a University of North Carolina man drove an SUV onto campus striking 9 people. Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar wanted to “follow in the footsteps of one of my role models, Mohammed Atta, one of the 9/11/01 highjackers.”

Host Neil Cavuto should have corrected the record (as Bill O’Reilly sort of did when Monica Crowley tried to make the same claim).

You can watch the video of Barbour here:

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