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Mohammad al-Qurani, a Chadian national, said in a phone call to Al Jazeera that the alleged ill-treatment "started about 20 days" before Barack Obama became US president and "since then I've been subjected to it almost every day".

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/04/2009414233431153300.html


From Information Clearing House

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Gitmo inmate: Obama changed nothing

Chicago Sun-Times

04/15/09

A detainee at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay said he was beaten almost daily and that nothing has changed since Barack Obama took over as US president, Al-Jazeera reported on Wednesday. Mohammad al-Qurani from Chad said in a telephone call to the Doha-based television that tear gas was used on him for refusing to leave his cell and he had a front tooth broken, according to remarks carried on Al-Jazeera’s website...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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