NWA Flight 253 bomber associated with jihadists and former Gitmo detainee in England

December 31, 2009

Tom Joscelyn of The Weekly Standard writes of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s tenure as president of the Islamic Society at the University College of London:
From January 29, to February 2, 2007, the Islamic Society hosted “a series of lectures” as part of its “War on Terror Week.” One of the lectures, [...]

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News and Views 12/30/09: 9/11, Gitmo, Thomson prison, NWA Fight 253, Yemen

December 30, 2009

Debra Burlingame of Keep America Safe Discusses Obama’s Statement on Terror Attack

To the Democrats Living Outside History (On the comparison between Bush/ShoeBomber and Obama/UnderwearBomber)
Back then, everyone was on the same page….we all knew what had happened…we all knew we were at war…we had moral clarity… Imagine, on December 22, 2001, when Richard Reid tried to [...]

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News and Views 12/29/09: Gitmo, Thomson prison, NWA Fight 253, Yemen

December 29, 2009

Growing Al Qaeda Threat from Yemen; Beleaguered Arabian Nation Home to Sophisticated Branch of Terrorist Franchise; Like a Pre-9/11 Afghanistan
“For many years now, al Qaeda has had a presence in Yemen,” says Peter Clarke, the former head of counterterrorism for London’s Metropolitan Police and a CBS News consultant. “The internal conflict and instability there give [...]

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Illinois hearing, rally against Thomson becoming Gitmo North; Gov Quinn skips it for vacation after vet, firefighter memory claim; Congress dodged funding

December 23, 2009

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Former AG to Durbin: Gitmo to Illinois Job Claim ‘Absurd’
“I think that increasing the risk for citizens in this country as a jobs program is absurd, if not obscene,” said Mukasey, who served as the nation’s top law enforcement official from 2006-08. … “Closing Guantanamo makes this [...]

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News and Views 12/22/09: Gitmo, 9/11 trials, Thomson prison

December 22, 2009

No place to write detention policy
Last week, in ruling on the merits of a detainee’s case, he issued a scathing indictment of the current litigation and an urgent plea for congressional participation in cases that “go to the heart of our judicial system.” “It is unfortunate,” he said in an oral opinion from the bench, [...]

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News and Views 12/21/09: Gitmo, 9/11 trials, Thomson prison (Update II: Is DOJ preemptively releasing dangerous Gitmo detainees?)

December 21, 2009

Did Obama Overrule Military in Gitmo Terrorist Release?
Arale’s transfer was, comparatively speaking, a high-profile event. He was one of the last detainees transferred to Guantanamo. Arale was also captured in Eastern Africa, not South Asia as most of the other Gitmo detainees were. Thus, the DOD thought it necessary to defend the transfer decision in [...]

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News and Views 12/18/09: Gitmo, 9/11 trials, Thomson prison

December 18, 2009

Thomson prison: Illinois attorney general rules Gov. Pat Quinn can sell Thomson prison
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said Thursday that Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn has the authority to sell the state prison that the federal government wants to use for terrorist suspects now at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The legal opinion by the Democratic chief legal [...]

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