Classified anti-Fourth Amendment legal memo also raised the possibility of further military deployment inside the US, and has not been formally withdrawn, but only “repudiated†by other DoJ officials…
- Administration Asserted a Terror Exception on Search and Seizure (Washington Post)
…while others link it to possible justification for the warrantless wiretapping immediately begun after 9/11:
- Memo Linked to Warrantless Surveillance (Associated Press/Wiredispatch)
Perhaps due to a mass desertion within his army’s ranks, Iraqi PM Maliki finally calls it quits on the fight with Sadr’s militia:
- Iraq PM Halts Battle With Militia (BBC News)
- More Than 1,000 in Iraq’s Forces Quit Basra Fight (New York Times)
Farcical assertions of an Al-Qaeda/Iran partnership (perhaps like the ones with Saddam Hussein) are disputed in the latest comments by Al-Zawahiri himself:
- Al Qaeda #2: We’ll Attack Iran (Wired.com)
Although never taking up arms against the US with no evidence of planning a terrorist attack, ethnic Uighur Huzaifa Parhat has spent six years being detained in Gitmo …
- Chinese Muslim Challenges Combatant Tag (Associated Press/Washington Post)
… while ACLU attorney Ben Wizner protests that “‘There is no remotely legitimate basis for the government to withhold these prisoners’ account of their mistreatment:” ”
A day before local elections across the country, the Egyptian police round up another 51 Muslim Brothers in a pre-dawn raid:
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