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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims' relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.

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At a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee last fall, Senator Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, asked Attorney General Eric Holder to produce a list of Department of Justice employees who had been involved in representing detainees. Holder said he’d consider the request.Three months later he denied it. In a letter to Grassley on February 18, Holder acknowledged that nine Justice Department officials had worked on behalf of detainees before joining the Obama administration. The names of two of those officials—Jennifer Daskal and Neal Katyal—had been reported publicly. But Holder refused to disclose the other seven and allowed that...

Special Dispatch Series - No. 336 January 25, 2002 No.336 Saudi Shura Council Member: Saudi Arabia Should Seek a Strategic Alternative to U.S. On January 18, 2002, The Washington Post ran an article quoting unnamed top Saudi officials who expressed hopes that the U.S. would end its military presence in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi sources stated that this presence had become a "liability" due to the Saudi public's hostility to the U.S. A few days earlier, columnist Dr. Othman Al-Rawwaf, a member of the Saudi Shura Council, published an article in the Saudi London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat calling for...