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Italy: court convicts former Gitmo detainee

An Italian court convicted former Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohamed Ben Riadh Nasri on terror charges and sentenced the Tunisian man to six years in prison.

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More “non-existent” anti-Semitism in the news

Which is more maddening: that an Australian court imprisoned a “Palestine solidarity activist” for spewing Jew-hatred at a rally, or that his spewing was tolerated by the “activists”?

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US drops, Russia adopts color-coded terror alerts

The US is doing away with the color-coded terrorism alerts adopted in the wake of 9-11—just as Russia is adopting such a system in response to the Moscow airport attack.

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Enough with the Julian Assange hero worship

Some 600 dissidents arrested in Belarus over the past week—as so-called “progressives” in the West rally uncritically around the accused rapist who put those dissidents at risk.