SPB News for Black Friday.

Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening JL newsjunkies and readers:

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksiving! Here is the SPB news wrap-up for Friday:


Terrorists in Iraq Are Tied to Allies of U.S. Saudi Arabia and Libya, both considered allies by the United States in its fight against terrorism, were the source of about 60 percent of the foreign fighters who came to Iraq in the past year to serve as suicide bombers or to facilitate other attacks, according to senior American military officials.

Congressman Accuses Police of Racial Profiling U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-7th District) said Wednesday he was the victim of racial profiling. CBS 2's Mike Parker reports, the congressman insists the only reason he was pulled over by Chicago police is because he is black. "I hope that this was some kind of isolated instance, but I know in my heart of hearts, I know that it's not," Davis said.

News Organizations Say Access Limited to Guantanamo Tribunal Five news organizations complained Wednesday that they are being denied access to much of the military tribunal proceeding against a Canadian terror suspect. Various arguments in the case of Omar Khadr at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are apparently made via e-mail -- a communications channel to which the public has no access -- and issues apparently are being raised in closed sessions for which no transcripts or summaries are available, the news organizations, including The Associated Press, wrote in a filing.

More than half of Afghanistan 'under Taliban' More than half of Afghanistan is back under Taliban control and the Nato force in the country needs to be doubled in size to cope with the resurgent group, a report by the Senlis Council think-tank says. A study by the group found that the Taliban, enriched by illicit [CIA] profits from the country's record poppy harvest, had formed de-facto governments in swathes of the southern Pashtun belt.