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...Qaeda •perceived "pro-Obama press coverage is decried...
Israeli officials were cautious about linking the attacks on the Chabad house to al-Qaeda or some of Israel's foes closer to home, such as Palestinian militants, Hamas or the Lebanese militia Hezballah. They say that the terrorists' target was foreigners, not just Israelis, and that the attacks against luxury hotels, restaurants, a hospital, a train station and Chabad house were designed for maximum shock value...
...from the group's tactics. The problem is that terrorists do not follow rule books; they learn and adapt from other groups. The fact that suicide bombers did not blow themselves up in the lobbies of the Oberoi or Taj hotels does not mean they are not from al-Qaeda. (See photos of the chaos in Mumbai...
...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...
...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...