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A Saudi man held in US custody for five years has told a military hearing he was tortured into confessing a role in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6511921.stm



Gates says Guantanamo trials lack international credibility

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that trials of war on terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba lack international credibility because of the taint of past treatment of detainees.

http://snipurl.com/1el6h



Camp Delta inmate 'who helped MI5' to be freed

For many years the British Government had refused to help Mr Rawi and the eight other British residents still held by the Americans at the US naval base in Cuba because they did not have the same legal status as UK nationals.

http://snipurl.com/1el6l


From Information Clearing House

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USS Cole Suspect: Torture Elicited Confession

A suspected Saudi terrorist told a military hearing that he was tortured into confessing that he was involved in the bombing of the warship USS Cole, according to a Defense Department transcript released Friday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/033007S.shtml



Detainee Says He Confessed to Stop Torture

A detainee accused of being Al Qaeda's Persian Gulf operations chief said in court that his US captors tortured him for years and forced him to falsely confess to the bombing of the US destroyer Cole and to many other terrorist plots, according to a Pentagon transcript released Friday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040107A.shtml

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Detainee Says He Confessed To Stop US Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/31/220/



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