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- 1 2 3 Distant Justice: How a Portland lawyer is trying to help one Guantánamo detainee return to his life as a fruit trader Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine , Willamette Week , August 9, 2006
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Ilkham Turdbyavich Batayev's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 47
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