weeklystandard.com - 1/24/2009
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... That the war on terror is over. The Washington Post 's Dana Priest has the major scoop today :
President Obama yesterday eliminated the most controversial tools employed by his predecessor against terrorism suspects. With the stroke of his pen, he effectively declared an end to the "war ...
google.com - 1/24/2009
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3 hours ago WASHINGTON (AFP) Two men released
from the US "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo...
Bay, Cuba have appeared in a video posted on a jihadist website, the SITE monitoring service reported. One of the two former inmates, a Saudi man ...
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AFP: Two ex-Guantanamo inmates appear in Al-Qaeda video
washingtonpost.com - 1/25/2009
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Weekend Opinionator: Closing Gitmo, Opening a Can of Worms
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... has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year.” For the Weekly Standard’s Michael Goldfarb, recent events seem to be a continuation of “something that looks an awful lot like Bush’s war on terror … with a drone strike in Pakistan killing sevensuspected terrorists, and news that a Gitmo detainee, no doubt innocent until his rage at being unconstitutionally detained boiled over upon release, has since emerged as the emir of al Qaeda in Yemen. Naturally, when ...
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