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Good news from Gitmo

By Michelle Malkin • December 31, 2008 05:15 AM

Finally, some national security news to cheer:

A U.S. judge refused to release two Guantanamo terrorism suspects on Tuesday and upheld the government’s authority to keep them, after ordering freedom last month for five prisoners whose case led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling.

Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon said in two separate rulings the government had shown enough evidence to justify holding Yemeni citizen Moath Hamza Amhed Al Alwi and Tunisian Hisham Sliti as “enemy combatants” linked to al Qaeda or Taliban forces.

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The terror apologists in the human rights community are up in arm, of course. They want the dangerous detainees freed immediately.

But as I wrote in my column last month on Obama’s second-thoughts advisers and supporters now refining their position on preventive detention to accommodate reality: “Nothing clarifies the mind like a jihadi boomerang.

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#101

On December 31st, 2008 at 4:00 pm, Flyoverman said:

Actually, it was proven that a lot of the Gitmo detainees were actually just out hunting pheasants and got caught in the cross-fire…….

Good thing Special Forces got to them before the DNR. They could have really been in trouble then.
#102

On December 31st, 2008 at 4:03 pm, AlohaGuy said:

a lot of the Gitmo detainees were actually just out hunting pheasants

True. I also use an AK for Pheasant hunting, with an occasional IEB (Improvised Explosive Birdbath) thrown in for good measure. But those phone calls to al Qaeda should be exempt from NSA listening, and only sealed divorce records of your political foes should be public knowledge.
#103

On December 31st, 2008 at 4:15 pm, chapoutier said:

Aloha,

Small point, but it was child custody hearing records that I believe were the issue, and contained the juicy stuff. Both Jack and Hopefully Senator Presumptive Jeri Ryan had agreed to make the divorce records public.
#104

On December 31st, 2008 at 4:19 pm, AlohaGuy said:

Small point…

There are no small points in the law as Georgetown likes to point out to me in their daily emails. I will take my medicine…

Even uglier though to make things public which can hurt the kids.