Obama Brings the Gitmolympics Home – by Michelle Malkin

The War on Terror meets the Chicago Way.

Ill. prison to get Gitmo detainees – AP

WASHINGTON – Taking an important step on the thorny path to closing the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the White House plans to announce Tuesday that the government will acquire an underutilized state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo. via [...]

NewsReal Looks at the World: This Week, Iran

When spontaneous street demonstrations broke out following the fraudulent Iranian presidential election last June, the Mullahs lost no time in unleashing the security forces and their allied militias upon the protesters. Scores were killed, and images of the carnage made the rounds of YouTube and other outlets.
The demonstrations were crushed. Hundreds of protesters and opposition [...]

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UK: Accused Al-Qaeda jihadis win right to hear secret evidence against them

Thereby significantly increasing the attractiveness of getting arrested, as far as jihadis are concerned. This is also one of the dividends Khaled Sheikh Mohammed will enjoy from his civilian trial in New York. Absurd Britannia Alert: “Al-Qaeda ‘terrorists’ win right to hear secret evidence,” by Duncan Gardham for the Telegraph,…

David Keyes: Ahmadinejad, the Blogger – WSJ.com

On Nov. 18, two Iranian Internet activists, Ali Behzadian Nejad and Omid Lavassani, were sentenced to six years in prison. Their crimes? Mr. Lavassani had the audacity to design a Web site for the leading opposition figure Mir Hossein Mousavi. Mr. Nejad is being jailed for “published comments” written by others on his blog, and [...]