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...Qaeda •perceived "pro-Obama press coverage is decried...
...will likely land early next year as President-elect Barack Obama takes office. Obama, who has vowed to close Guantánamo, will probably release most of the roughly 225 prisoners held there and find a way to try a select few who are thought to be hard-core al-Qaeda operatives too dangerous to let go. Those freed will probably be returned to their home countries - except for the Uighurs. With no country willing to take them, the incoming Obama Administration will probably have to settle them somewhere in the United States and face China's anger...
...wasn't so long ago that Barack Obama saw paths around many of the civil-liberty dilemmas that President Bush faced when he launched a war on al-Qaeda around the world. The freshman Senator from Illinois believed, and often claimed, that the White House could and should have avoided the shame of Guantánamo Bay, resisted the urge to engage in torture and shunned domestic eavesdropping...
...innocent. German citizen Khaled el-Masri was one such victim. El-Masri was vacationing in Macedonia in December 2003 when authorities arrested him on wrongful suspicions that his passport was fake. A tragic case of mistaken identity then played out. El-Masri has the same name as an al-Qaeda operative being hunted at the time by CIA officials, and they took custody of el-Masri in Macedonia. Operatives from the agency beat and drugged el-Masri before whisking him to a secret prison in Afghanistan known as the "Salt Pit." Eventually el-Masri's captors realized they...
Messing with the al-Hais brothers is not a good idea. Local lore has it that when al-Qaeda kidnapped Sheik Mohammed a couple of years ago, it demanded $120,000 for his release and added one other demand: that his home, the centerpiece of the al-Hais compound, be leveled. The family complied. But as soon as he was free, Sheik Mohammed ordered the house to be rebuilt exactly as before. To underscore his defiance, he named the new building al-Tahadi, or the Challenge...