Welcome Back, Khadr: Why Law Enforcement Approaches To Terror Don't Work
This is still filtering in but it looks like a stunning blow to the jurisdiction of the Gitmo military courts:
The AP is reporting that a military court today threw out murder charges against Omar Khadr on the grounds that the military commission system as constituted may only try "alien unlawful enemy combatants" and Khadr was only previously found to be an "enemy combatant." According to the defense lawyer in the case, none of the detainees at Gitmo have been found to be "unlawful" enemy combatants.
Meanwhile in Peru, an incarcerated narcoterrorist is back in business, leading Sendero Luminoso from his jail cell:
Shining Path Announces Abimael Guzman Resumes Leadership -- On 17 May Shining Path (SL) published a manifesto on its web page, Red Sun Review (Revista Rojo Sol), announcing that Abimael Guzman, who is serving a life sentence at the Callao Naval Base, had resumed leadership of SL.No direct link on that one, sorry, but it's for real. The demise of the Shining Path was regarded as a great counterterror success, so this is particularly alarming.
Hmmm...maybe they've got a little help from Uncle Hugo. He's being so very helpful these days.