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Guantanamo Detainee Was Tortured, Says Official Overseeing Military Trials

 

Published 1/14/2009 by Bob Woodward at Wash Post Obama Administration

The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, interrogating him with techniques that included sustain... (link)

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