Justification

The rightful detainment of unlawful combatants in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has been the subject of such relentless vilification, acrimony and propaganda that a report of this kind to be found in the elite Boston Globe is just short of miraculous:

Information obtained through the interrogation of a Guantanamo Bay detainee led to a spectacular series of counterterrorism raids in Germany this month, in which more than 700 police swept through mosques, homes, and businesses in six cities and arrested 22 suspected militant extremists, according to a senior Defense Department official.

...The German raids of Jan. 12 are the most extensive intelligence coup attributed to the operation. The sweep was the largest counterterrorism operation in recent months in Europe.


For those concerned about human rights: tens, hundreds and perhaps thousands of Germans and Europeans have had theirs protected from two dozen killers.

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