On January 19 of this year Mahmoud al-Mahbouh, a leading terrorist associated with the Palestinian Islamic movement known as Hamas, checked into his room at a luxury hotel in Dubai. At some point in the afternoon, several assailants broke into his room and wrestled him to the ground, first injecting him with a strong muscle relaxant called succhinylcholine and then smothering his face with a pillow.
Last month, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, testified before the Senate Armed Forces Committee that the time had come to review the possibility of repealing the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy.