Word: namo
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...Colin Powell said he "would close Guantánamo not tomorrow but this afternoon." How about four or five years ago, Mr. Powell, when you should have stood against the prison and the Iraq war prevarication...
Still, there are worrying signs that some locals may be amenable to Zawahiri's message: For one, Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed, who spent two years at Guantánamo after his capture in Afghanistan, hails from Ceuta. And in 2006, two pilgrimage sites sacred to most Muslim North Africans but condemned as unorthodox by Qaeda-style Salafists were set afire. At least one local imam is known to have preached extremist messages, while the Spanish army based recently discharged three Muslim soldiers in Ceuta for allegedly holding radical views...
...would close Guantánamo not tomorrow but this afternoon.' COLIN POWELL, former U.S. Secretary of State, calling for the immediate closure of the controversial military prison...
...would close Guantánamo not tomorrow but this afternoon.' COLIN POWELL, former U.S. Secretary of State, calling for the immediate closure of the controversial military prison...
...apparent American indifference should not be attributed just to a moral failure on the part of U.S. policymakers. Russia has gained impunity in part because of the effects of America's disastrous war in Iraq on U.S. foreign policy. Consider the fallout: Guantánamo has discredited America's long-standing international legitimacy; false claims of Iraqi WMD have destroyed U.S. credibility; continuing chaos and violence in Iraq have diminished respect for U.S. power. America, as a result, has come to need Russia's support on matters such as North Korea and Iran to a far greater extent than it would...