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themoderatevoice.com - 10/23/2009
Rocking Guantanamo
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Life imitates and irritates art as leading musicians join a Freedom of Information suit to discover how loud rock was used as an instrument of torture against Guantanamo detainees. Members of REM, Pearl Jam and Nine Inch Nails want to know details of when and how their work was employed to ...
Former British Ambassador Reveals How Bush Transported People For Torture
librarygrape.com - 10/26/2009
Former British Ambassador Reveals How Bush Transported People For Torture
— librarygrape.com — This was done in all of our names and we should all, individually, be deeply and profoundly... ashamed: We were receiving CIA intelligence. MI-6 and the CIA share all their intelligence. So I was getting all the CIA intelligence on Uzbekistan and it was saying that detainees had confessed to ... (more) Former British Ambassador Reveals How Bush Transported ...

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REM call for Guantanamo closure
news.bbc.co.uk - 10/22/2009
REM call for Guantanamo closure
— news.bbc.co.uk — Rock bands including Pearl Jam and REM have joined a coalition of musicians to support the US... president's efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. The National Campaign to Close Guantanamo, which also includes former military officers, launched on ... (more) REM call for Guantanamo closure

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