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Allegations at Guantanamo Linked to Abu Ghraib Abuses

By Kareem Fahim

The Village Voice | May 19, 2004

Two former inmates at Guantánamo Bay have said that they were either subjected to or witnessed some of the same methods of harsh interrogation seen in pictures taken at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

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Tags: detainees, international, Britain, lawyer, Asif Iqbal, beatings, Camp Delta, Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, chained, Extreme Reaction Force, guards, Lieutenant Commander Barbara Burfeind, naked, shackled, Shafiq Rasul, Steven Watt

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