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Come Again?
From today's New York Times: WASHINGTON, April 30 - A high-level military investigation into accusations of detainee abuse at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has concluded that several prisoners were mistreated or humiliated, perhaps illegally, as a result of efforts to devise innovative methods to gain information, senior military and Pentagon officials say. Here's some advice: If you don't want to be humiliated, don't try terrorizing the United States of America. The Times writes that one recently released inmate from Guantanamo Bay said there were three major hunger strikes in his more than three years of imprisonment at Guantánamo. He said that after one of them, a protest of guards' handling of copies of the Koran, which had been tossed into a pile and stepped on, a senior officer delivered an apology over the camp's loudspeaker system, pledging that such abuses would stop. Interpreters, standing outside each prison block, translated the officer's apology. Stepping on copies of the Koran is not a good thing to do. But the inmates have yet to promise that this behavior will stop. By Ed Moltzen · 1 May 2005
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