Guantanamo Bay State

On January 19, 2010, a team of Americans for Peace and Tolerance activists blocked a plan to have a Guantanamo jihadist detainee settle in Newton, MA.

We are all in debt to the dozens of activists who braved a freezing rainy night to come out to city hall and face down clueless Newton aldermen who proposed to have as our neighbor a man who belonged to “the charity wing” of Lashkar-e-Taibah – the organization that committed mass murder in Mumbai.

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Below are links to news coverage of the controversy and and protest.

Boston Globe

Newton residents demand an apology from aldermen

Newton Tab

Newton aldermen kill proposal to welcome Guantanamo detainee. Residents demand apology, threaten recall

TAB editorial: Aldermen should focus on Newton

Alderman Linsky, where were you all week?

Weekly Standard

Mass. Liberals: Keep the Terrorists Out

NewTV

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