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Judge Orders Notorious Terrorist Freed From Gitmo – Weekly Standard
According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson has ordered Mohamedou Slahi – a known al Qaeda recruiter who worked for Osama bin Laden – freed from Guantanamo. The Journal’s account does not explain the judge’s reasoning and the decision was not immediately available online. But the decision is inexplicable in light of Slahi’s notorious track record.
There is no doubt that Mohamedou Slahi is one of the worst terrorists held at Gitmo. Among Slahi’s most notorious recruits were four of the September 11 conspirators, all of whom were members of the infamous Hamburg cell. Slahi’s role in recruiting the Hamburg cell for al Qaeda is explained on pages 165 and 166 of the 9/11 Commission’s final report.
Slahi arranged for Ramzi Binalshibh, al Qaeda’s point man for the 9/11 operation, and three of his cohorts to travel from Germany to Afghanistan so that they could train in al Qaeda’s camps and swear allegiance to Osama bin Laden. Binalshibh’s three friends were: Mohammed Atta, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah – the suicide pilots of American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, and United Airlines Flight 93, respectively.
Along with Binalshibh, Shehhi and Jarrah met with Slahi in late 1999. The three originally wanted to travel to Chechnya to fight, but Slahi convinced them to travel to Afghanistan for training first instead. The 9/11 Commission explained:
Slahi instructed them to obtain Pakistani visas and then return to him for further directions on how to reach Afghanistan. Although Atta did not attend the meeting, he joined in the plan with the other three. After obtaining the necessary visas, they received Slahi’s final instructions on how to travel to Karachi and then Quetta, where they were to contact someone named Umar al Masri at the Taliban office.
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Pelosi’s Favorability Rating At 11%, Reid’s At 8% – CBS News
Most Americans don’t have an opinion about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a new CBS News poll finds, even after more than a year of debate over the health care reform bill that put them squarely in the public eye.
Yet those who do have an opinion of the Democratic Congressional leaders don’t seem to have a very good one: Pelosi and Reid are viewed unfavorably by roughly three times as many people as they are viewed favorably.
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Woman Told To Take Train To Opposite Platform – Orange News
A wheelchair-bound woman was told to take a train for 30 miles in order to cross to an opposite platform 20 yards away. Julie Cleary, 53, was hoping to use a new £2.8m lift at Staplehurst train station in Kent to get out of the station after a day trip to London, reports the Daily Telegraph.
But she was told she could not use it because of “health and safety” and told to instead to catch a train to Ashford International Station, 15 miles away, and back so she would end up on the right platform.
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Man Stabs, Kills 8 Children Outside School In China – Los Angeles Times
At least eight children were slain by a man brandishing a knife outside an elementary school in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian, authorities said Tuesday. The suspect was identified as Zheng Mingsheng, a 41-year-old unemployed doctor who was said to be depressed over personal and professional failings.
He was arrested. The rampage began at 7.20 a.m. as the children were waiting to go to school. According to unconfirmed reports by bloggers, the suspect was stopped by a gym teacher, a jogger and a security guard, one of whom knocked the knife out of his hand with a mop.
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How Obamacare Hits Industry And Threatens Jobs – Washington Examiner
The people at Zoll Medical Corporation saw a ray of hope in January when Scott Brown was elected senator from Massachusetts. Located in Chelmsford, 30 miles outside Boston, Zoll is the nation’s leading manufacturer of heart defibrillators, which save thousands of heart attack victims each year.
Back in January, as the Senate race was raging, both House and Senate Democrats wanted to impose a crippling new tax on the makers of medical devices, Zoll included, to help pay for Obamacare.
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Fan Misses Match After 10,000 Mile Flight – Ananova
A football fan flew 10,000 miles to watch his favourite team for the first time – only to miss the game when his train broke down. Will Keegan, 26, paid £700 pounds for flights from Melbourne, Australia, and a ticket for Blackburn Rovers’ Premier League match with Fulham.
He stayed with family in Bromley, Kent, and on the morning of the game set off by train to make what should have been a three-hour trip. But his journey came to a halt near Rugby, Warkwickshire, due to an earlier train having torn down power lines, reports the Daily Telegraph.
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Music Can Be Banned If It Even Sounds Religious – WorldNetDaily
A public school has banned performance of an instrumental version of “Ave Maria” at its high-school graduation simply because the superintendent fears it might sound religious – and the U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the ban to stand by refusing to hear the case.
Kathryn Nurre, a former student at Henry M. Jackson High School in Everett, Wash., brought the action against Carol Whitehead, superintendent of Everett School District, alleging that she engaged in unjustified censorship of expression.
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Burglar Breaks In, Cooks Dinner – Stuff
Police in an American town say someone broke into a restaurant and cooked a chicken and rice dish before fleeing – leaving behind a pile of dirty dishes. They say the hungry burglar on Saturday broke through an exhaust fan in the back wall of the Matsu Sushi Grill in Hillsdale, a town of 10,000 residents just northwest of New York City.
The burglar got chicken from a freezer and cooked it with rice in a frying pan, according to The Record of Bergen County. Detective Robert Francaviglia says the burglar ignored $US200 in the cash register.
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States Move To Block Obamacare’s Unfunded Mandate – News Max
Less than 24 hours after the House gave final approval to a sweeping overhaul of healthcare, attorneys general from several states on Monday said they will sue to block the plan on constitutional grounds.
Republican attorneys general in 11 states warned that lawsuits will be filed to stop the federal government overstepping its constitutional powers and usurping states’ sovereignty.
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Former Inmate Gets 15 Years For Breaking Into Jail – Yahoo News
A Florida man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for violating his probation by trying to break into the Brevard County jail. A judged sentenced 25-year-old Sylvester Jiles of Cocoa on Monday. He was convicted in January of trespassing on jail property and resisting an officer.
Authorities say Jiles tried to climb a 12-foot fence at the Brevard County Detention Center in August. He was caught and hospitalized with severe cuts from the barbed wire. He had been released a week earlier after accepting a plea deal on a manslaughter charge.
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Avalanche Kills 35 In Afghan Northeast – MSNBC
An avalanche swept through five residential houses killing 35 people, including women and children, in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said Tuesday.
The disaster happened overnight in the Argho Panjkhwa district of the remote and rugged province which borders China, Pakistan and Tajikistan, said Abdul Maroof Rasekh, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
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Health Care Bill: Calorie Counts For Big Macs, Vending Machines – Politico
Buried deep in the House health care bill is a provision, likely to raise nanny-state hackles, requiring fast-food chains and vending machine owners to notify customers of calorie counts – by conspicuously posting nutritional information on menus or machines.
The provision – Section 2572 – requires retail food establishments “part of a chain with 20 or more locations” to list calorie counts “on the menu board including a drive-through board,” as is currently required in New York City and other localities.
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