Newby: What's the problem with this string?

[fishfinger]

For some reason I can't read this string from the command line ...

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Khaksar, a founding member of the Taliban, said he contacted the Americans 
because he feared the Islamic movement had been hijacked — first by 
Pakistan's powerful intelligence agency and then by bin Laden and his al-
Qaida group.

Khaksar said he and others in the Taliban wanted to ''keep Afghanistan for 
Afghans'' but found themselves marginalized because of bin Laden's 
influence over Mullah Omar. Bin Laden donated suitcases full of money to 
finance the Taliban's war-effort against the northern-based alliance led by 
the late guerrilla leader, Ahmed Shah Massood

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Why is that? And how can I make it work properly? The method I'm using is 
.......

ttt = raw_input("a string:")


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