Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Times reports:

Harry Potter’s worldwide popularity is so broad-based that it has become favorite reading for Islamic terror suspects at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.

Lori, who for two years has overseen the detention center’s library, said J.K. Rowling’s tales about the boy wizard are on top of the request list for the camp’s 520 al Qaeda and Taliban suspects, followed by Agatha Christie whodunits.

“We’ve got a few who are kind of hooked on it. A couple have asked if they can see the movie,” said Lori, a civilian contractor who asked that her last name not be publicized.

Wonder if J.K. Rowling will get a blurb or two from the Gitmo detainees for her next book?

On a serious note, as I noted in June, the Gitmo library was also stocked with Jihadi books and other radical Islamist paraphernalia, according to Erik Saar, who served as an army sergeant at Gitmo for six months and co-authored a negative, tell-all book about his experience titled “Inside the Wire.”

Scarborough now reports that Wahhabist literature is excluded and that “The library bans certain book categories, such as ones that deal in political thought. ”

Awaiting ACLU lawsuit and American Library Association protest…

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In related news, Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule have a terrific op-ed about Judicial Cliches on Terrorism and Ed Morrissey spotlights The New Gitmo Catch-22.

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