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- ↑ US DoD Official Discusses Guantanamo, Asharq Al-Awsat , May 13, 2006
- ↑ Pentagon officials at UC Berkeley to defend prisoner treatment, San Francisco Chronicle , December 2, 2005
- ↑ British Guantanamo detainees sue US for $10m, The Times , May 11, 2006
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