http://www.slate.com/id/2160542/
No Gitmo North
Barbara Raab

..The unanimous Canadian Supreme Court decision says "before the state can detain people for significant periods of time, it must accord them a fair judicial process." One of the defendants in the case boiled it down to this: The court "has said no to Guantánamo North in Canada." The Times emphasizes the "striking difference" from the current legal climate in the United States, where just this week, a federal appeals court upheld Congress' action stripping the American courts of authority to hear challenges to the indefinite detention of foreign terror suspects at Gitmo.

..The LAT reports the Bush administration is running out of patience with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the Shiite parliament's foot-dragging over legislation that would ease rules barring former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party from government service, an important factor in bringing Iraq's violence under control. The person in charge of overseeing the de-Baathification plan was Ahmad Chalabi, who Maureen Dowd describes in her NYT column today as "the man who helped goad and trick the U.S. into war."

..The younger Mr. Hakim says the Americans treated him roughly and falsely accused him of having an invalid passport. The NYT explains far better than the other papers today why his apparently mistaken detention was a major misstep for the United States at a critical time in relations with both Iraq's Shiite majority and Tehran.