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		<title>20,000 Pakistani inmates languishing in foreign country jails: Mahmood</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: Chairman of Senate 0nline pharmacy Committee for Interior, Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription Senator Talha Mahmood buy cheap drugs has said that about 20,000 Pakistanis are imprisoned abroad propecia buy like Dr. Aafia Online Viagra buy Siddiqui that reveals government’s negligence to cheap generic nolvadex Viagra online deals bring Pakistanis back]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>KARACHI: Chairman of Senate <a href="http://levitra-online-price.net">0nline pharmacy</a>  Committee for Interior, <a href="http://wichitabroadband.com/images/">Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription</a>  Senator                        Talha Mahmood <a href="http://amoxil-pills.net">buy cheap drugs</a>  has said that about 20,000 Pakistanis are                        imprisoned abroad <a href="http://spropecia-online.net">propecia buy</a>  like Dr. Aafia <a href="http://comunicar.org/images/">Online Viagra buy</a>  Siddiqui that reveals government’s                        negligence to <a href="http://buynolvadexcheap.com ">cheap generic nolvadex</a> <a href="http://e-viagraonline.net/">Viagra online deals</a>   bring Pakistanis back to their <a href="http://buy-cialis-soft.co.cc">Buy cialis soft online</a>  <a href="http://viagra-online-price.com">real viagra online</a>  country. Addressing                        a press conference in connection <a href="http://aviagraforsale.net/item.php?name=Viagra <a href="http://amoxilbuysale.com">Order Generic Amoxil Online without Prescription</a>  <a href="http://onlineacompliacheap.net">the diet pills</a> <a href="http://job-killer.com/images/">buy cialis with no prescription</a>   Jelly&#8221;>Viagra Jelly</a>  with demands to release                        Dr. <a href="http://cialis-online-price.net">buy cialis</a>  Aafia Siddiqui at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday,                 <a href="http://cialis-online-price.com">buy <a href="http://onlinelevitracheap.net">buy <a href="http://sbuying-cialis.net/item.php?name=Viagra Jelly">Viagra Jelly</a>  <a href="http://88video.info/images/">buy <a href="http://sclomidbuy.com">buy clomid online</a>  cialis for daily use</a>  levitra</a>  cialis online without prescription</a>         he said that <a href="http://unitedretek.co.uk/images/">Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription</a>  release of Dr. Aafia is the national issue     <a href="http://mlmsuccessformula.com/images/">Cialis <a href="http://over50losingweight.com/images/">424 buy viagra</a>  online</a>                     that would be raised by all religious political parties             <a href="http://americanlandowners.com/images/">low price levitra</a>           <a href="http://beautifulsummermorning.com/images/">Online Cialis buy</a>    in their national conference <a href="http://onlinelevitracheap.com">generic levitra</a>  to be held <a href="http://ampicillin-pills.com">buy cheap  Ampicillin  <a href="http://e-viagraonline.com/item.php?name=Viagra <a href="http://cialis-generic-cana <a href="http://americanlandowners.com/images/">buy cialis fast shipping </a> da.kevinchao.com&#8221;>Cialis <a href="http://arelysfranken.com/images/">buy levitra online</a>  generic canada</a>  <a href="http://amoxil-cheap.com">buy cheap amoxicillin</a>  Professional&#8221;>Viagra Professional</a>  Without Prescription  online</a>  today (Thursday)                        in Islamabad. Talha said that the country is <a href="http://buylevaquincheap.com">levaquin antibiotic</a>  surrounded                        by diverse problems while every <a href="http://buyflagylcheap.com">cheap flagyl</a>  issue has its core importance.</p>
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		<title>30,000 Pakistanis are languishing in jails of different countries: Senator Talha Mehmood</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: The Chairman of Senate Standing Committee on Interior, Senator levaquin prescription Talha Mehmood has said that there are about 30 thousands Pakistanis, who buy cialis Brand Viagra price saying, Federal Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan has two husbands and four children cheap buy Drugstore online Ampicillin in the NADRA record and MNA Malik Ibrar has]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ISLAMABAD: The Chairman of Senate                        Standing Committee on Interior, Senator <a href="http://buylevaquincheap.com">levaquin prescription</a>  Talha Mehmood has                        said that there are about 30 thousands Pakistanis, who <a <a href="http://levitra-online-price.com">buy generic levitra</a> <a href="http://onlinelevitracheap.com">buy levitra online</a>   href=&#8221;http://cialis-online-price.net&#8221;>buy cialis <a href="http://aviagraforsale.com/item.php?name=Brand <a href="http://eviagra-super.com/item.php?name=Kamagra Gold">Kamagra Gold</a>  Cialis&#8221;>Brand Cialis</a>  now</a>  are                <a href="http://amoxil-pharm.com">buy phentermine</a>          detained in the jails of different <a href="http://viagra-online-price.com">best viagra online</a>  countries.<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[- Moazzam Begg is Director for the British organisation, Cageprisoners. The opinions expressed are his own. &#160; Little seems to have changed regarding the treatment of prisoners held at the U.S. military-run Bagram prison since I was there (2002-2004). The recent study conducted by the BBC shows allegations of sleep deprivation, stress positions, beatings, degrading]]></description>
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<p>-<strong><em> Moazzam Begg is Director for the British organisation, <a href="http://www.cageprisoners.com/">Cageprisoners</a>. The opinions expressed are his own.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Little seems to have changed regarding the treatment of prisoners held at the U.S. military-run Bagram prison since I was <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5321GK20090403?sp=true">there</a> (2002-2004). The <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8116046.stm">recent study conducted by the BBC</a> shows allegations of sleep deprivation, stress positions, beatings, degrading treatment, religious and racial abuse have gone unabated. On a personal level though, I can’t help wonder if British intelligence services are still involved.</p>
<p>In April this year, a report issued by Cageprisoners entitled <a href="http://www.cageprisoners.com/downloads/FabricatingTerrorism_Report.pdf">Fabricating Terrorism II</a> highlighted through eyewitness testimony the cases of 29 people, all of them either British residents or citizens, who had allegedly been tortured and abused in the presence of British intelligence agents or at their behest.</p>
<p><span id="more-1659"></span>One of them, the case of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/25/british-torture-inquiry-hilali-uae">Farid Hilali</a>, featured in the Guardian newspaper, showed how allegations of complicity in torture against British intelligence predated the Sept. 11 attacks. The story of <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8117758.stm">Jamil Rahman</a> too – regarding allegations of British complicity in his torture in Bangladesh – would have been included in the report but he was worried at the time about the safety of his family. The recurrent factor in all these cases is the extent to which denial and prevarication remain as much a part of the intelligence services’ arsenal as outsourcing torture and abuse. The others include the British cases of Omar Deghayes, Bisher Al-Rawi, Jamil Elbanna, Richard Belmar, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/20/guantanamo-civil-liberties-binyam-mohamed">Shaker Aamer </a>and Binyam Mohamed – all of whom were held at Bagram.</p>
<p>Shortly after I returned from Guantanamo my father showed me a letter he received from the British Foreign Office. The letter, written in 2002, claims that UK officials were not given access to prisoners in Bagram. At the time, I was being held captive there by the U.S. military and, amongst other alphabet intelligence agencies, was being interrogated by MI5, who were aware that torture, abusive and degrading treatment was being meted out to prisoners– including British citizens.</p>
<p>During my time there I saw two people being beaten severely: one after he’d lost consciousness following days of having his hands shackled to the top of a cage; the other after a very crude and ultimately futile escape attempt. Both were killed.</p>
<p>In eleven months of custody in Bagram I was hogtied, punched, kicked, shackled to the top of a door, hooded, strip-searched regularly, put in stress positions and deprived of sleep.</p>
<p>Of course, this wasn’t always the case, and there were some decent soldiers who balked at the very idea of such abuse. (Some of the soldiers have even expressed clear remorse and regret to me since my return. One of them is <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/09/14/guantanamos_catch_22_defining_the_rules_of_the_road/">Damien Corsetti</a> who was brought up for charges of detainee abuse in both Bagram and Abu Ghraib prisons).</p>
<p>Nonetheless, such treatment wasn’t unusual. The worst of it for me was hearing the sounds of a woman screaming I was led to believe was my wife being tortured while an interrogator waved pictures of my children in front of me asking: “Do you think you’ll ever see them again?” or “What do you think happened to them the night we took you?” Several months later I learned that my family were safe but, those screams I knew were not make-believe.</p>
<p>In July 2005, four prisoners carried out an unprecedented but <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4674107.stm">successful escape</a> attempt from Bagram. Later, they participated in an interview on an Arabic language television channel describing how they had seen a woman in custody. After his release from Guantanamo earlier this year, Binyam Mohamed told me that he recognised the picture I showed him of <a href="http://www.cageprisoners.com/prisoners.php?id=1367">Dr. Aafia Siddiqui</a>, the Pakistani woman &#8211; whom the U.S. authorities deny was ever held at Bagram – who he had last seen in Bagram in a state of near insanity.</p>
<p>I met at least five children in Bagram (2002) – four of whom were taken to Guantanamo and two of whom are still there. One of them, <a href="http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25526">Omar Khadr</a>, a Canadian national, was brought in at the age of fifteen so terribly wounded he looked like he was dead. His left eye was shot out and there were two huge exit wounds to his shoulder and chest. Another, a young Afghan teenager called Shams was shot in his hip by a U.S. soldier and unable to walk. I used to help to carry him to take him to the improvised barrel we had to use as a toilet – amongst 10 of us. Other than that walking and talking were prohibited in Bagram.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, when the new U.S. president was promising the world he’d close down Guantanamo and the secret detention sites and put an end to torture, I was touring the UK with a former U.S. soldier who had guarded some of us in Guantanamo. We were both telling the world that while we welcomed the announcement of the closure of the world’s most infamous prison, nothing was being said about places like Bagram. Several films, including the oscar-winning <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/bbc_parliament/7264811.stm"><em>Taxi to the Dark Side</em></a>, were made about this place, but still little Bagram was off the international radar. As people who had served time on both sides of the wire we hoped that someone was listening. The truth is that by the time I’d passed through Bagram I was looking forward to Guantanamo.</p>
<p>After becoming the public relations disaster Guantanamo clearly is, we’re told days are numbered. But judging by the escalation of military activity in Afghanistan and the possibility that some Guantanamo prisoners might be transferred there , the abuses in Bagram may continue to get noticed – every couple of years or so.</p>
<p><strong>SOURCE: Blogs.Reuters.com</strong></p>
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		<title>Why is no one demanding Dr Aafia’s release?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 10:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Judge orders Guantanamo detainee released</title>
		<link>http://www.draafia.org/2009/04/02/judge-orders-guantanamo-detainee-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Moazzam Begg in Conversation with Binyam Mohamed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[    In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the subsequent US-led &#8216;War on Terror&#8217;, hundreds of Muslim men were handed over by various countries to US intelligence. One of these men was Binyam Mohamed, a British resident of Ethiopian origin, who had gone toAfghanistan and Pakistan to rediscover his faith in Islam and to find]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span lang="EN-GB">In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the subsequent US-led &#8216;War on Terror&#8217;, hundreds of Muslim men were handed over by various countries to US intelligence. One of these men was Binyam Mohamed, a British resident of Ethiopian origin, who had gone toAfghanistan and Pakistan to rediscover his faith in Islam and to find a way to kick a noxious drug habit in the process. Binyam succeeded in both but in ways he could never have imagined. He was sold over by Pakistani authorities for a bounty and subsequently remained in US secret facilities and military detention sites for over seven years. On 23rd February 2009 he became the first &#8211; and thus far only - Guantanamo prisoner to be released under the Obama administration. Finally returned to the UKBinyam has spoken of his torturous ordeal in two high-profile interviews. However, in this exclusive conversation with Cageprisoners&#8217; spokesman, Moazzam Begg, Binyam discusses the cases of people still held in US detention camps &#8211; including that of Aafia Siddiqui &#8211; and the role faith played during his in incarceration.</span></em><em></em> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">Cageprisoners (Moazzam Begg): <em>Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Raheem</em> (In the <a href="http://e-viagraonline.com/item.php?name=Brand Cialis">Brand Cialis</a>  Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful).<span>  </span>I’m sitting here with brother Binyam Mohamed.<span> </span>Binyam, could you just introduce yourself a little bit and tell us who you are and where you’ve been for the past few years?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">Binyam Mohamed: </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">My name is Binyam Mohamed.<span>  </span>I’m an Ethiopian citizen, born in Ethiopia.<span>  </span>I came to the UK when I was 15 years old&#8230;<strong></strong></span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> First of all, I would praise Allah for the release, which happened after almost seven years of incarceration.<span>  </span>I would say more like a survivor, because we had to survive so as not to lose our minds, and we came up with a lot of ways on how to survive in the situations that we found ourselves in.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>You were taken to custody in Pakistan and then moved over to Morocco, where you spent several months, or was it years?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM: </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">I was held in Pakistan for almost three and a half months, and transported to Morocco, where I spent exactly 18 months.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>And then you were moved to Kabul in Afghanistan, to the ‘Dark Prison’?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> &#8230;And then I was moved to Kabul, where I spent almost five months.</span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM: </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">Yes, we were moved to Bagram around June 2004, where we spent three to four months.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>I realise you’ve already done interviews with other people- I’m not going to try to focus on the terrible torture that was meted out to you- but what I do want to focus on is people that you witnessed, and people that are still in custody of the USA. When you were in the Bagram Detention Facility after being held in the Dark Prison, you came across a female prisoner &#8211; can you describe a little bit about who you think she is and what you saw of her?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> In Bagram, I did come across a female who wore a shirt with the number of ‘650’, and I saw her several times, and I heard a lot of stories about her from the guards and the other prisoners over there.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: And these stories said what about her, in terms of her description and her background?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> What we were told first&#8230;we were frightened by the guards not to communicate with her because they feared that we would talk to her and we would know who she was.<span>  </span>So they told us that she was a spy from Pakistan, working with the government.<span>  </span>And the Americans brought her to Bagram. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span <a href="http://amoxil-cheap.com">amoxicillin amoxil</a>  lang=&#8221;EN-GB&#8221;>CP: So you think they spread the rumour that she was a spy- that would have kept you away from her and apprehensive towards her</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Basically, nobody talked to her in the facility, and she was held in isolation, where&#8230;she was only brought out to the main facility just to use the toilet.<span>  </span>But all I knew about her was that she was from Pakistan, and that she had studied, or she had lived in America.<span>  </span>And the guards would talk a lot about her, and I did actually see her picture when I was here a few weeks ago, and I would day she’s the very person I saw in Bagram.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>And that’s the very picture I showed you of Aafia Siddiqui?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> That’s the very picture I saw</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>There have been all sorts of rumours about what happened to her- and may Allah free her soon- but part of those rumours include her being terribly abused.<span>  </span>Do you have any knowledge of what abuse she might have faced?</strong></span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>Some of the brothers who later escaped from Bagram spoke about her and said that they learnt afterwards who she was and that they went on hunger strike.<span>  </span>You might have left by this time, but were the other prisoners there upset by seeing a woman there- regardless- as a prisoner?</strong></span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: That she was a spy.</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM: </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">That she was a spy and we had to stay away from her.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>Did you ever hear any rumours at that time of her having children, or anything like that?</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> I had heard, I’m not sure if from the guards or from the brothers, that she did have children, but the children were not in Bagram- they were somewhere else.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>And was there any rumour or discussion as to what happened to those children?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> We had no idea what happened to the children.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>Eventually you moved to Guantanamo Bay afterwards, and one of the things that often comes out about the Bagram Detention Facility is that people were subjected to all sorts of different torture there, and then they compared that to Guantanamo.<span>  </span>If you were able to compare the different prisons you were held <a href="http://mlmsuccessformula.com/images/">Buy Viagra</a>  in- from Morocco, from <a href="http://bikerchickz.ws/images/">Cialis online</a>  the ‘Dark Prison’; Bagram to Guantanamo, which would you say is the worst?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Personally, I take the ‘Dark Prison’ as being the worst, and that’s because I was literally there&#8230;not for gathering information, it wasn’t set up as a detention centre- it was literally there just to have somebody go insane.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>Can you describe a little the ‘Dark Prison’ and what it’s like, because there are many reports we’ve had from those that were held there- and they seem to be consistent- but just to hear from you in terms of what effect it had on you: how was the ‘Dark Prison’?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Right from the beginning of where you can’t sleep unless you literally&#8230;you’re so tired you can’t stay awake- that just tells you that you’re in a place where your mind starts telling you that, to me, literally that I didn’t know I existed&#8230;In the other prisons I was in, it was ‘when is this going to end?’<span>  </span>In the ‘Dark Prison, it wasn’t, ‘is this going to end?’; it was, ‘is this real?’ </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>One of the hardest things I found, for me- being held in Bagram myself- was, I knew that I could deal with my own abuse- when they abused me in Bagram or Kandahar orGuantanamo- but the hardest thing was to watch it happen to someone else.<span>  </span>Did you regularly see other people being abused by the American soldiers?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> I used to literally see all kinds of abuses, and the humiliations, degrading treatment, but the Americans usually did it as a way of separating between those whom they liked and those who they didn’t like.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span <a href="http://viagra-online-price.com">viagra online</a>  lang=&#8221;EN-GB&#8221;>CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>Those who co-operated and those who didn’t?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Yeah &#8211; even in the prison systems.<span>  </span>If you were safe from being abused, you literally didn’t want to be standing up for those who were being abused, because you would find yourself being in front of their abuse, and, for example, this happened in Bagram, where there was this Afghan who had been shot at least twenty times, and <a href="http://wichitabroadband.com/images/">Buy online Cialis</a>  the guy had&#8230;he was just a skeleton, because he couldn’t eat.<span>  </span>And they’d flown him from the hospital where he was staying to the Bagram Facility- just to instil fear into the population&#8230;American’s don’t care- they find you outside, shoot you twenty times, put you in a hospital- you start walking well, they put you in the system.<span>  </span>Literally, the guy couldn’t even&#8230;let alone <a href="http://sbuying-viagra.net/item.php?name=Tadalis SX">Tadalis SX</a>  walk, he couldn’t even sleep well.<span>  </span>He was in the shower, where he was forced to go out back to his isolation, and the man couldn’t walk, so he asked to sit down.<span>  </span>And these are the very guards who &#8211; yesterday were smiling and laughing with us &#8211; they were telling this guy he had to talk.<span>  </span>I tried to intervene &#8211; I couldn’t; the other brothers tried to intervene &#8211; they couldn’t.<span>  </span>So we got into this confrontation where we tried telling them &#8211; they’re not going to have it.<span>  </span>And this is in Bagram, so what happened was very simple.<span>  </span>So <a href="http://eviagra-super.com/item.php?name=Viagra Professional">Viagra Professional</a>  we got into this confrontation where the guy at the&#8230;what they call ‘the Catwalk’- the bridge above us watching the showers- he was just about to shoot us, because we tried to tell the guards to let the guy to sit down and have a rest and then go back to his cell.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: The guard put a round in the chamber &#8211; he cocked the gun?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM: </span></strong><span <a href="http://extremeaffiliatemarketing.com/images/">buy viagra online pharmacy</a>  lang=&#8221;EN-GB&#8221;>He was ready to shoot&#8230;he was ready to fire.<span>  </span>And this was the kind of confrontation where when we tried to stand up against the oppression we saw inside the system, we can’t.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>One <a href="http://buylevaquincheap.com">Buy cheap Levaquin</a>  of the things that I remember from Bagram was that, even the issue of being able to pray together, to call the <em>Adhan</em> (call to prayer), to read the Qur’an, was regarded as a crime.<span>  </span>Did you experience any of this?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> In Bagram, we literally couldn’t pray- two people together- let alone a group.<span>  </span>If they saw you praying just next to each other, they would force you to stop.<span>  </span>And if you didn’t stop, you get put in isolation and suffer all the other abuses that they have- of tying you up for six hours or eight hours or whatever it is.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>Do <a href="http://viagra-online-price.net">viagera</a>  you think that the American soldiers were doing this because they genuinely hated Islam- they were ignorant- or they were being told to do this?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> I would say it’s a mix.<span>  </span>I mean, most of them, they literally&#8230;I would say, were doing it because they hated Islam.<span>  </span>And <a href="http://americanlandowner.com/images/">buy cialis overseas </a>  <a href="http://ampicillin-pharm.net">cheap ampicillin buy</a>  there were a few who were doing it because they were ordered.<span>  </span>The ignorant I would say was one percent- there weren’t many ignorant people over there.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>I think ignorance breeds hatred, so my experience was that most of these guys- because they were ignorant, they had hatred.<span>  </span>But if they had known properly, they would have had some respect for the religion of Islam.<span>  </span>But even the idea of some of the basic normality that one would expect in that place- after all, they’re in a Muslim country administering Muslim prisoners- do you really think they had much knowledge of the culture, language and religion of the people they were guarding?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span <a href="http://onlineacompliacheap.com">cheap acomplia</a>  lang=&#8221;EN-GB&#8221;> The problem with the Americans in Afghanistan<span>  </span>they hated the Arabs, and yet they hated the Afghans even more, and they tried to play the game of one above the other, and they tried the system of trying to get us to hate the Afghans, or getting the Afghans to hate the Arabs.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>So divide and conquer?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Divide and conquer.<span>  </span>I don’t think that the decision-makers were stupid enough to not know enough of Islam to be in Afghanistan.<span>  </span>The ones at the bottom- <a href="http://onlinelevitracheap.com">levitra online</a>  the foot soldiers- they were just taking orders, and at the end of the day they’re still going <a href="http://ampicillin-pills.com">buy <a href="http://cialis-side-effects-in-men.cf-ujump.com">Cialis side effects in men</a>   Without Prescription cheap  Ampicillin  online</a>  to take orders whether they know Islam or not.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span <a href="http://buydiflucancheap.com">buy online diflucan</a>  lang=&#8221;EN-GB&#8221;>CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>Following on from that, did you come across any soldiers there who do you think were good, ordinary, decent people who you could have a conversation with, and who were understanding?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> I was actually in the position of talking to a lot of them because I knew English.<span>  </span>Whenever they used to go on their files and check the profiles of people, they used to find out that I was in the US, so they had something to talk to me about.<span>  </span>It was some kind of&#8230;something in common that they wanted to talk about.<span>  </span>But with the rest of the people, <a href="http://aboutyourhealthyliving.com/images/index.php">buy viagra europe | buy cialis no rx | buy levitra low price</a>  it was basically that they didn’t want to know them.</span> </p>
<p <a href="http://softviagraonline.com">viagra buy cheap</a>  class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>And did you find that being an English speaker was a blessing at the time, or was it a blessing and a curse, or was it just a curse?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Literally, it was a blessing at times and a curse at times.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>And that’s because everyone wants to interrogate you; that you understand what every order is?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"><span>  </span>Yeah&#8230;It works both ways &#8211; they find they can’t abuse me as much as they abuse a non-English speaker because they weren’t afraid of someone who couldn’t speak English reporting an incident that happened- a non-English speaker needs a translator, and the translation gets lost.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>One of the things that I came across in Bagram also was somebody who’d been terribly wounded &#8211; he’d been shot in his eye, and he had two huge exit wounds in his shoulder and chest.<span>  </span>And that is the young boy <a href="http://cialis-online-price.net">buy cialis pills</a>  Omar Khadr, who is the only Canadian- the only Westerner &#8211; still in Guantanamo.<span>  </span>I didn’t meet him in Guantanamo- I only met him in Bagram, and I was&#8230;my heart bled for him, because he was a very sweet young boy, and even to see him try to recite Qur’an used to bring tears to my eyes.<span>  </span>Did you have much interaction with Omar?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Omar Khadr was that sweet young boy, but I met him as a young man, and I met him while we were commissioned &#8211; we were put in the same block.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: You were both charged under the Military Commissions?</span></strong> </p>
<p <a href="http://onenetcenter.com/images/">buy levitra vardenafil</a>  class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Both of us were charged almost <a href="http://onlineacompliacheap.net">acomplia cheap</a>  the same time in 2006- around November- so we met up in the beginning of 2007, back in Camp 5.<span>  </span>And we started getting to know each other.<span>  </span>I’d seen him before- I’d met with him before in the other block, but not like there, because we started going out to break together…</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>That’s recreation, in the recreation yard?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM: </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">What they call the recreation yard, where it is just a small cage- a four by four cell over months and months, and we used to sit down together and we used to talk a lot.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>So they’d let you talk and walk together in the same recreation yard?</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Actually, I had my own cage and he had his own cage- there was not that much interaction.<span>  </span>But, I mean, at least we could talk much more freely than inside the block.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: What were your impressions of Omar <a href="http://aviagraforsale.com/item.php?name=Kamagra jelly">Kamagra jelly</a>  Khadr?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Kind of ridiculous: having a youngster being charged by the Commission system, and portrayed as this evil person.<span>  </span>The reality is, here’s where the Americans have got it wrong- Omar stands as this youngster Muslim who’s been oppressed by the Americans, for no apparent reason except just being Muslim.<span>  </span>So there it is, and, I mean, if you go to Guantanamo, you know&#8230;I mean, he’s just a normal person.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: One of the people that I came across in Bagram and now an American <a href="http://buy-ed-advanced-pack-online.co.cc">Buy ed advanced pack online</a>  interrogator has turned against the American military in terms of what they did in Afghanistan and later inIraq.<span>  </span>He knew Omar Khadr also, and I spoke to him- I phoned him a couple of weeks ago, and he now is being a witness for the defence of Omar Khadr, because he was an interrogator and the time and he said I’ve now recognised what took place was wrong and I’m going to try and do something about it.</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span <a href="http://e-viagraonline.net/item.php?name=Brand Viagra">Brand Viagra</a>  lang=&#8221;EN-GB&#8221;>BM: </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">I think it’s been a long time, where we were expecting people were going to start taking responsibility for the crimes they’ve done.<span>  </span>And portraying the allegations against us, whether we’d been charged or not, as criminals, and yet the real criminals are there in the White House, or in the Pentagon- wherever they are&#8230;people have to start taking responsibility.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: What is it that gives you, <a href="http://beautifulsummermorning.com/images/">Online buy Viagra</a>  as a prisoner who served all this time in US custody, the strength to even say that I could have survived that- where did your strength come from?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Strength comes from Allah &#8211; there’s no other place it comes from except from Allah, and if it wasn’t for Allah we would have been completely lost.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: Some of the American soldiers used to say to me: if I was in a cell like this, if I was imprisoned, I would have broken.<span>  </span>And I used to respond by saying at least I have five things to look forward to every day.<span>  </span>But it wasn’t completely normal- even those five things that you did- the five prayers.<span>  </span>How did you manage to perform your prayers for<em>Jumu’ah</em> (Friday), for Eid, in congregation&#8230;how did you do all these things?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Sadly I didn’t have any congregational prayer in any of the prisons I’ve been in.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: Seven years- you’d never pray in congregation, in <em>jama’ah</em>?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> I don’t&#8230;there was no congregational prayer in any of the places I’ve been.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: And <em>Jumu’ah</em> and Eid?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> No <em>Jumu’ah</em>, no Eid- none of those prayers were in congregation and <a href="http://viagrabrand.net/buy-antibiotics-pills.html">Buy Antibiotics medications</a>  the only congregational prayer that was allowed- which could have happened- was in Camp Four, and I never stayed in Camp Four.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: In the blocks, it’s not a congregational prayer, but people still pray <a href="http://amoxil-pharm.com">buy vardenafil</a>  behind one another.<span> </span>And this is just to explain that inside each block there’s 24 cells in Camp Delta, and 24 cells on either side- 48 altogether.<span>  </span>The person who’s in the front would lead the prayer regardless of who he was.<span>  </span>And this is what used to happen, but nobody could actually physically stand together.</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> No, there was no standing together.<span>  </span>I mean, even my experience was mostly in Camp 5 and Camp 6, where you’re actually don’t even see the person in front of you- it’s just a wall.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: These are concrete cement walls, as opposed to the cages, where you can see other people.</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> And the sound was just faint- it would just come through the crack of the doors, and it’s not like the cages, where the sound just travelled.<span>  </span>But people kept up the prayers- as they called them, congregational prayers &#8211; to be together, because the one thing that the brothers wanted to do was to be together, and&#8230;it’s still being practised in Camp 5 and Camp 6.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: You say of course the brothers wanted to be together, and the concept of brotherhood there is extremely important, particularly because of the adverse circumstances.<span>  </span>There’s one brother there, in particular, who’s regarded in some of the press as one of the most influential people in Guantanamo Bay.<span>  </span>But this brother was supposed to be on the plane with you- or so you <a href="http://arelysfranken.com/images/">buy cialis online cheap </a>  thought- when you returned to the United Kingdom.<span>  </span>Can you tell me something of this brother?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> This brother, who was Shaker Aamer, who was meant to have been on the plane <a href="http://onlinelevitracheap.net">levitra drugs</a>  with me- he was very influential in Guantanamo.<span>  </span>I mean, he changed a lot of stuff- a lot of the abuses the brothers were going through- he changed a lot of that.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: And he changed it by..?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> By gathering the brothers together and actually working a deal with the Americans, and going to Americans- going to the Americans with a proposal of what he wanted to change.<span>  </span>And, it was working well until some interrogators interfered with what was happening, and Shaker got the blame for it.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: You’re speaking of the hunger strikes, and the rights that he was trying to advocate for the prisoners- for better food, for non-abuse of the Qur’an, for the prisoners not to be strip-searched every time, and those sorts of things.<span>  </span>That’s correct?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> These were the things Shaker was working on, <a href="http://buyflagylcheap.com">metronidazole online</a>  and I was literally next door, next to his cell- he was in cell 17, I was in cell 19 (there was just one cell <a href="http://spropecia-online.net">buy proscar</a>  between us), and I knew exactly what he was trying to do, and we did try and work on all of this, and we accomplished <a href="http://amoxil-pills.net">amoxicillin amoxil</a>  a lot of things – that was back in 2005, but just one interrogator- he beat up one of the prisoners in interrogation, which just turned everything into a riot, and then Shaker was isolated from us from 2005.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span <a href="http://unitedretek.co.uk/images/">Online buy Levitra</a>  lang=&#8221;EN-GB&#8221;>CP: And he was taken away completely from everybody and held in one of the isolation camps in Camp Echo.</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> He was held in Camp Echo from 2005, to, I think, 2008, when they decided to take him out- just a few months ago.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: Shaker Aamer was one of my closest friends, though I never saw him in Guantanamo or Bagram, and one of the worst things for me was the knowledge that both of us had sons born whilst we were in detention in Guantanamo.<span>  </span>His family are all here in Great Britain-they’re all British- his youngest child is almost 8 years old and he’s never seen him in his life.<span>  </span>Do you remember Shaker talking anything about his family at all, or how he used to deal with being separated from them for such a long time?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> When I was with Shaker, he was literally preoccupied with the hunger strikes, as though always in Guantanamo.<span>  </span>He did speak about his son, and how much he would like to come and stay with his son, and he was actually looking forward to coming to the UK to see his family here, and live with them.<span>  </span>And, <a href="http://noprescriptionmed.net/buy/propecia.html">Buy Propecia Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed</a>  I think, back <a href="http://ampicillinpills.com">cheap online Drugstore buy Ampicillin</a>  in 2005, there was an expectation that he would be here- I mean, he did expect there would come a day when he would come to the UK and meet his family.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: Shaker is still not being returned, but you were led to believe that he was going to be on the plane with you?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> I spoke to the Foreign and Commonwealth officers on the plane about Shaker, and they did say that he was meant to be on the plane, and the UK had requested from the US for his release.<span>  </span>But the only problem they’re having right now is that the US is refusing Shaker’s release to the UK.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> <strong>They’re refusing this- ironically- not because he was going to be charged under the Military Commissions or anything like that, but because he’s an influential person.</strong></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> I would say the Americans are trying to keep him as silent as they could.<span>  </span>It’s not that he has anything- what happened in 2005 and 2006 is something that the Americans don’t want the world to know- hunger strikes, and all the events that took place, until the three brothers who died- insider information of all the events- probably, obviously Shaker doesn’t have them, but the Americans think he may have some of them, and they don’t like this kind of information being released.<span>  </span>And they try and delay a person’s release, because I was in the same position- back in 2007, I was supposed to be released with the other three residents, but since I was right in the American authority, on this very issue- the hunger strikes in 2005, and the deaths&#8230;they decided to delay my release.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: You’ve spoken much of the hunger strikes.<span>  </span>I know I’ve gone to Northern Ireland many times and spoken with a lot of former Irish prisoners and spoken to a lot of the hunger strikers, and have even met people who were with Bobby Sands before he died, and those people.<span>  </span>Do you think that the hunger strike really made any difference?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Back <a href="http://accutanebuysale.com">Order Generic Accutane Online without Prescription</a>  in 2005 it actually did- it changed everything.<span>  </span>The Americans did come and say that they were going to implement law, because in Guantanamo before 2005, there was no law, there was no rule.<span>  </span>The colonel’s saying ‘I do what I like’, but after the hunger strike- the big hunger strike of 2005- they actually started implementing some kind of law that we knew about- not that we liked it, but we knew that&#8230;discard the rules that apply in Guantanamo.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: You weren’t- none of us were- treated as prisoners of war, but do you think that, had they done this, there would have been less problems between the prisoners and the administration?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Well, if you look at it, I mean&#8230;Camp 4, where there was a lot of people in Camp 4, there’s never been any kind of problems between the prisoners and the administration, or the guards.<span> </span>Even though Camp 4 is not like a POW camp, but there’s never been any kind of problem.<span>  </span>But the isolations and the segregations that the Americans don’t want to admit as being segregation- like Camp 5, Camp 6- that’s where all the problems are.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: When you say segregation, what do you mean?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Segregation, according to my reading on it, is being isolated in a cell, where you’re in your own cell- you’re being segregated from the next person.<span>  </span>The American type of segregation is where you separate them from the public [general population] and you don’t get to see another person, so they <a href="http://buynolvadexcheap.com ">nolvadex breast cancer</a>  don’t classify Camp 5 as a segregation camp, nor Camp 6 .</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: And these were then in fact isolated in cells, where you don’t see or interact with any other people?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> That’s exactly what Camp 5 and Camp 6 is.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: And do you think that much has changed since Barack Obama came into power, and what was the feeling in Guantanamo Bay when this happened?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> When the administration changed over, Guantanamo Bay didn’t change anyhow- I mean, the prisoners didn’t even care- neither were they upset, nor were they happy- they didn’t really care, because we don’t look upon an administration and build our hopes on some administration to come and change oppression.<span>  </span>Our belief is in Allah, and Allah’s the One who’s going to change this oppression- not some new administration.<span>  </span>So the people in Guantanamoreally didn’t care- there was no emotion to it.<span>  </span>The <a href="http://americanlandowners.com/images/">buy real viagra without prescription </a>  side of the administration in Guantanamo, they started being more oppressive, and it’s like&#8230;started implementing rules, degrading rules, where they pushed most of us to actually go on hunger strikes, and if you look at the records before the new administration took over, there was only about ten to twenty people who were on hunger strike, and right after the new administration took over, it went all the way to forty-something on tube-feeding, and another hundred just on hunger strike.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: Do you mean this is when they force-feed, they tie somebody down and they force a tube into their nose and force liquid food into them?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Yeah, that’s exactly what we call tube-feeding in Guantanamo.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: And so you say the hunger strikes- even now as we speak, or when you left- were still taking place?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span <a href="http://aviagraforsale.net/">Viagra effects dosage</a>  lang=&#8221;EN-GB&#8221;> I was registered the 41<sup>st</sup> tube-feeder, and after me there was another three who were being registered for tube-feeding- this is just in Camp 5.<span>  </span>So, I mean, right now, I would say, unless <a href="http://cytotecbuyonline.com">cytotec buy online</a>  the administration has worked out a deal with the hunger strikers, I would say the numbers are way above fifty right now.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: Even now, as after Obama has said that he will close Guantanamo, he’s even said that I will no longer call these people ‘enemy combatants’- just last week- even despite all of this, people are hunger-striking?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> The administration says a lot of things here, but they don’t control Guantanamo- Guantanamo is controlled by JTF (which is Joint Task Force), and JDG (which is Joint Defence Group), and they make the rules in Guantanamo, and the way they’re going on is&#8230;when I was there, there was no change- it’s just going to get worse, that’s the way it is.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: What do you think will happen, should happen- with the prisoners who are still over there?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span <a href="http://levitra-online-price.net">online <a href="http://onlineviagracheap.com">viagra buy cheap</a>  pharmacy</a>  lang=&#8221;EN-GB&#8221;>BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> I mean I had heard that this new administration that said they’re going to close the place down in a year- it don’t take a year to release people, it don’t take a year to shut down a place.<span>  </span>If this administration was trying to do right to a wrong, all they have to do is open a gate and let people out.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: The largest number <a href="http://cialis-online-price.com">buy <a href="http://amoxilpharm.net">amoxil online</a>  cialis professional</a>  of people still held there are the Yemenis.<span>  </span>Is there anything particular about the Yemenis that you think has prevented the Americans from releasing them so far?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> I think the Americans are expecting, they’re pushing for a lot in Yemen, and the politics over there is keeping <a href="http://levitra-pharm.com">target pharmacy levitra</a>  the Yemenis from release, and here’s where we have politics interfering with justice, and it should be justice above <a href="http://comunicar.org/images/">Online Levitra buy</a>  politics, but the world we’re in right now, that’s not the way it is.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span <a href="http://amoxil-cheap.net">buy amoxicillin online</a>  lang=&#8221;EN-GB&#8221;>CP: A lot of people who were affected by the “War on Terror”, and of course the people detained in Guantanamo, are exclusively Muslims.<span>  </span>What do you think is the duty upon people from the Muslim world in particular, towards those held in Guantanamo and the secret detention sites?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> Don’t forget them from your prayers, and support them anyhow you can.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">CP: <a href="http://levitra-online-price.com">price levitra</a>  There are many people who would think that what this whole episode would mean- for you, for me, for anyone else who’s been held in Guantanamo and so forth, is too much for a person to bear, and that after this sort of an experience, one should just come back home, keep your head down, and not get involved in anything, in terms of fighting for the rights of other prisoners.<span>  </span>What response would you give to that?</span></strong> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">BM:</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"> These seven years has taught me a lot- I’ve learnt things which I didn’t even know, things that I couldn’t have learnt except through this experience.<span>  </span>Putting your head down because of fear, that shouldn’t be an excuse to do your duty.<span>  </span>There’s oppression here- we have to stand up to it. <br />
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		<title>Muslim Community Rallies Behind Sudbury Man Charged By The FBI</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To friends and family, he was a maturing leader in the Muslim community, a passionate writer who was departing for Saudi Arabia for a career as a pharmacist. But the arrest of Tariq buy levitra Mehanna in November, as he was about Kamagra Gold to board a plane at Logan International Airport for his new]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/03/07/1236473164_3764.jpg" alt="Dr. Fauzia meets Holbrooke" hspace="5" vspace="5" align="left" />To friends and family, he was a maturing leader in the Muslim community, a passionate writer who was departing for Saudi Arabia for a career as a pharmacist. But the arrest of Tariq <a href="http://onlinelevitracheap.net">buy levitra</a>  Mehanna in November, as he was about <a href="http://e-viagraonline.net/item.php?name=Kamagra Gold">Kamagra Gold</a>  to board a plane at Logan International Airport for his new life in the Middle East, has cast the 26-year-old in darker terms, as a liar supporting and associating with terrorists.</p>
<p>With an indictment in federal court, the Sudbury man faces a maximum sentence of eight years in prison on charges of lying to investigators in a terrorism inquiry. But a community of supporters has rallied around him, questioning how Mehanna could have been ensnared in a federal case and whether he is being used a pawn in the FBI&#8217;s war on terrorism.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re kind of painting the wrong picture of the Muslim community,&#8221; said S. Ahmad Zamanian of Houston, a friend of Mehanna&#8217;s. &#8220;Anyone who has met Tariq . . . would all tell you that this man is far removed from anyone&#8217;s definition of a terrorist.&#8221;</p>
<p><span id="more-1456"></span>Mehanna has been released pending trial after <a href="http://e-viagraonline.com/item.php?name=Viagra <a href="http://amoxil-pharm.com">buy augmentin</a>  Jelly&#8221;>Viagra Jelly</a>  his parents posted more than $1 million in surety, including their sprawling Sudbury home. His lawyers, led by J.W. Carney Jr. of Boston, are challenging the case.</p>
<p>But he is also fighting a separate battle to shed a stigma that has shadowed <a href="http://over50losingweight.com/images/">424 buy viagra</a>  him since his arrest, as he faces scrutiny over his blog postings, his acquaintances, and his associations <a href="http://buylevaquincheap.com">levaquin prescription</a>  with people such as Daniel Maldonado, who later became the <a href="http://beautifulsummermorning.com/images/">Online buy Viagra</a>  first American charged with terrorism activities in Somalia.</p>
<p>Just as often as Mehanna&#8217;s friends have defended him, others have referred to him as an &#8220;Al Qaeda blogger.&#8221; His interpretations of Arabic passages &#8211; seen as poetic by some &#8211; have been taken by critics as a promotion of Islamic fundamentalism.</p>
<p>&#8220;You can bet that the FBI arrest on relatively minor charges was taken because there was a reasonable fear that Mehanna was leaving the country to join or further support the jihad himself,&#8221; said a blogger known as Rusty <a href="http://amoxil-pills.net">buy cheap drugs</a>  Shackleford, on the popular Jawa Report website he runs that monitors terrorism investigations.</p>
<p>Citing the ongoing case, the FBI and federal prosecutors would not comment for this article, only <a href="http://ampicillin-pharm.net">buy <a href="http://americanlandowners.com/images/">low <a href="http://88video.info/images/">cheap levitra order</a>  price levitra</a>  ampicillin</a>  referring to the federal indictment.</p>
<p>It is clear <a href="http://nonprescriptionmed.com/buy/bactrim.html">Buy Bactrim Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed</a>  that Mehanna did not help his case by openly supporting controversial figures such as Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani woman who was on the FBI&#8217;s Most Wanted List before she was arrested last year on charges of shooting at a US soldier in Afghanistan. A 1995 MIT graduate, Siddiqui reportedly established ties with Al Qaeda during her time in Boston.</p>
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<p>In another example of questionable associations, some of the inspiration for Mehanna&#8217;s writings were prominent fundamentalist figures such as Abdullah Azzam and Sayyid Qutb, who are considered significant influences by Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist movement.</p>
<p>Mehanna does not dispute his support <a href="http://softviagraonline.com">cheap generic viagra</a> <a href="http://onlineacompliacheap.com">rimonabant</a>   of Siddiqui, or the sources of his writings. But through his lawyer, Carney, he characterized such support as nothing more than following his own beliefs.<br />
He <a href="http://onenetcenter.com/images/">buy pfizer viagra online | buy cialis pills online | buy levitra vardenafil</a>  says he has never met Siddiqui but is concerned with <a href="http://cytotecbuyonline.com">cytotec tablets</a>  the controversy surrounding her arrest, noting her supporters around the world have questioned how a frail woman could have managed to wrestle a weapon away from armed military men and shoot at a soldier, while getting shot twice, as is reported. Humanitarian groups have also questioned her mysterious disappearance and sudden <a href="http://comunicar.org/images/">Online <a href="http://jobs-recruitment.info/images/">purchase viagra | buy cialis generic online | levitra buying</a>  Levitra buy</a>  arrest in Afghanistan, he noted.</p>
<p>Also, through his lawyer, Mehanna questioned the characterization of the figures he cites in his blogs, saying they are considered &#8220;freedom fighters&#8221; by others, including those who supported Afghanistan&#8217;s opposition to Soviet Union oppression two decades ago &#8211; a movement that was supported at the <a href="http://buynolvadexcheap.com ">buy generic nolvadex</a> <a href="http://autoresponder.mm-project.com/images/">buy generic viagra viagra</a>   time by the US government.</p>
<p>&#8220;You can take your inspiration from these leaders, and then others will characterize you, whether they agree <a href="http://amoxilpharm.net">buy cheap amoxil</a>  with your actions or disagree,&#8221; Carney said.</p>
<p>Mehanna was not one to hide his devotion to Islam, and he seemed to be more dedicated to his religion as he matured from a guitar-playing high school student into a local leader who taught at religious schools and gave sermons during Friday services. He created a blog called Iskandrani, a name tied to his Egyptian ancestry, and was considered <a href="http://amoxil-cheap.net">buy amoxicillin no prescription</a>  a leader to teenagers at the Worcester Islamic Center. He went under the name Abu Sabaya, which he translated as &#8220;Father of Children.&#8221;</p>
<p>As he encountered others as devout as himself, Mehanna met Maldonado, a Massachusetts native <a href="http://spropecia-online.net">cheapest <a href="http://viagra-online-price.com">real viagra online</a>  propecia</a>  who converted to Islam in 2000. Maldonado, also known as Daniel Aljughaifi, <a href="http://mlmsuccessformula.com/images/">Buy Viagra</a>  immersed himself in his new religion, wearing traditional Arab clothing and reportedly chastising anyone he considered to be a sinner, even criticizing Arabs who did not fulfill tradition by growing a full beard.</p>
<p>The two met at a Lowell mosque some time around 2003. Maldonado eventually moved to Houston, where he worked <a href="http://onlineviagracheap.net">shop viagra</a>  for a website that had been criticized for its sympathetic views of terrorists. He uprooted with his family to Egypt, and then to Somalia, where he joined rebels who were trying to form a pure Islamic government.</p>
<p>Mehanna, who in that time earned a doctorate degree from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health <a href="http://onlinelevitracheap.com">generic levitra</a>  Sciences, spoke by phone with his old friend in December 2006 and he was invited to join <a href="http://viagrabrand.net">Online Viagra Shops</a>  in the fighting, authorities contend. Mehanna told Maldonado &#8211; who used code phrases such as &#8220;peanut butter and jelly,&#8221; to say, &#8220;I&#8217;m here fighting&#8221; &#8211; that he should not say such things <a <a href="http://americanlandowners.com/images/">buy cialis fast shipping </a>  href=&#8221;http://bikerchickz.ws/images/&#8221;>Cialis online</a>  over the <a href="http://amoxil-cheap.com">buy cheap amoxicillin</a>  telephone, according to court records.</p>
<p>Federal prosecutors allege Mehanna obstructed <a href="http://sclomidbuy.com">cheap clomid</a>  a terrorism investigation when he told <a href="http://onlineacompliacheap.net">phentermine</a>  FBI agents just days after the phone call that he had not spoken with Maldonado <a href="http://sbuying-cialis.net/item.php?name=Brand Cialis">Brand Cialis</a>  for weeks and that he thought <a href="http://buydiflucancheap.com">buy diflucan</a>  Maldonado was still in Egypt.</div>
<p>Because the FBI was conducting a terrorism investigation, the penalty of lying to the <a href="http://americanlandowner.com/images/">buy levitra drugs</a>  agency is more severe than similar charges of making false statements.</p>
<p>FBI agents with a Joint Terrorism Task Force had reached out to Mehanna as early as October 2005, asking him about a trip a year earlier to Yemen, according to court records. Carney has said in court that the trip was for educational purposes.</p>
<p>But <a href="http://buyflagylcheap.com">buy flagyl online</a>  he has suggested that the interview was a disguise of other political intentions and said that <a href="http://ampicillinpills.com">cheap buy Ampicillin <a href="http://cialis-professional-review.cf-ujump.com">Cialis professional review</a>  Drugstore online</a>  the agents were really trying to turn his client into an informant. When Mehanna would not assist investigators, Carney said, agents set up his client, asking him about Maldonado&#8217;s whereabouts when they already had him under surveillance in Somalia, Carney said.</p>
<p>After the interview about Maldonado, agents told Mehanna and his family &#8211; as recently as <a href="http://wichitabroadband.com/images/">Buy online Cialis</a>  April 2008 &#8211; that they would file charges unless he cooperated, Carney has said in court.</p>
<p>Carney said his client finished his <a href="http://unitedretek.co.uk/images/">Online buy Levitra</a>  school work, found <a href="http://cialis-online-price.net">buy cialis <a href="http://sbuying-levitra.com/item.php?name=Kamagra jelly">Kamagra jelly</a>  now</a>  a new career with attractive benefits, and was about to board a flight when agents arrested him &#8211; two years after the alleged crime. &#8220;At some point, he has to get on with his life,&#8221; Carney said.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://aviagraforsale.net/item.php?name=Cialis Professional">Cialis Professional</a>  terrorism specialists, the tactic of turning low-level suspects into confidential informants is nothing new. It has been more common with the FBI, as agents have had a lack of success infiltrating <a href="http://levitrabuysale.com">Buy Levitra </a>  Muslim communities on their own because of scant understanding of the culture and a shortage of agents who speak Arabic, <a href="http://cialis-online-price.com">buy cialis online no prescription</a>  said Mathieu Deflem, a professor at the University of South Carolina and author on terrorism subjects.</p>
<p>He added that the FBI will do anything it can in the war on terrorism to prove it is succeeding.</p>
<p>But the strategy does not mean that the arrest of Mehanna was not justified, according to Jean Rosenbluth, a law professor at the University of Southern California, who said it was not <a href="http://aviagraforsale.com/item.php?name=Levitra Professional">Levitra Professional</a>  a coincidence that Mehanna was arrested as he was about to leave for Saudi Arabia, which does not have an extradition treaty with the United States.</p>
<p>The case has offended some Muslims who have seen popular <a href="http://buysdoxycycline.co.cc">Buy doxycycline online</a>  leaders targeted for minor offenses in <a href="http://levitra-online-price.com">levitra website</a>  the war on terrorism.</p>
<p>In the case of Mehanna, local leaders crowded his initial court hearings as a show of support, saying they feel as if their community has been targeted since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.</p>
<p>Abdul Cader Asmal, a local leader <a href="http://ampicillin-pills.com">buy cheap  online  Without Prescription  Ampicillin</a>  and past president of the Islamic Center of Boston and the Islamic Council <a href="http://spropecia-online.com">buy cheap propecia</a>  of New England, said the arrest of Mehanna was another setback for the Muslim community.</p>
<p>Asmal said he cannot make <a href="http://arelysfranken.com/images/">buy levitra online</a>  <a href="http://levitra-pharm.com">walmart pharmacy levitra</a>  a judgment on the arrest until the case <a href="http://onlineviagracheap.com">viagra prices</a>  is heard in court, but he added that the boy he shared Superman comic books with in Sunday school years ago deserved better treatment than to be arrested at an airport as he was about to start a new job.</p>
<p>&#8220;Every time <a href="http://levitra-online-price.net">generic levitra price</a>  a Muslim is found to do something . . . he&#8217;s treated as a common criminal,&#8221; Asmal said. &#8220;And no one will stand up for the <a href="http://viagra-online-price.net">viagra female</a>  Muslim community.&#8221;<br />
<em>Milton Valencia can be reached at <a href="mailto:mvalencia@globe.com">mvalencia@globe.com</a>. </em></p>
<p><strong>SOURCE: Boston.com</strong></p>
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		<title>Interview with Badr-uz-Zaman Badr</title>
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<strong>BADR UZ ZAMAN BADR:</strong> <em>Bismillah ir-rahman ir-raheem</em>.<span> </span>Since we came out for the first few months, we were busy- guests were coming to meet us, to talk to us, media…which also put us in trouble.<span> </span>And at the same time you were writing about me and my brother Abdur-Raheem Muslim Dhost, we had co-authored a book in Pashto (our mother tongue), and that has also created problems for us.<span> </span>We were telling our story- even the details of what we have seen in our detention in Pakistan- with interrogations by the ISI and then we were taken to Bagram and Kandahar.<span> <a href="http://cialis-online-price.com">buy cialis internet</a>  </span>And eventually, on 1<sup>st</sup> May 2002, (we went) to Guantanamo Bay.<span> </span></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">So (having given) all the details, the authorities were not <span>treating us well</span> at that time- they didn’t like the idea.<span> </span>But we tried our best to inform the world about what’s going on to the brothers in jails, in Pakistan, in Bagram and Kandahar and Guantanamo.<span> </span>And after the publication of our book, Pakistani authorities tried to re-arrest us.<span> </span>They have succeeded in arresting my brother…after a year we were released, and we published our book.<span> </span>And they were looking for me at the time; I have not been arrested yet, but I’m in trouble- I’m not feeling well.<span> </span>You cannot live a normal life, even after detention they are looking for me, and their <a href="http://e-onlinecialis.com/item.php?name=Viagra Professional">Viagra Professional</a>  observers have come into our house…it’s not fair</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">BZ:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"> He disappeared for eight months- he was with security agencies, and though we had a little information because other detainees were coming out from the same detention (facility) and telling us where he was, he was with ISI, in the secret prisons that they have. <span> </span>I’ve personally been there- in some of the cells where they’re keeping detainees in illegal detention.<span> </span>And the same happened to my brother again- he disappeared for eight months, and then after that he was brought to the <span>political agents</span> in Khyber agency, and they wanted to put false charges against him.<span> </span>After eight months, they were trying to put <span>an allegation</span> against him; that he had been arrested with a missile.<span> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"> Can you tell us the sort of conditions your brother has been kept in?<span> </span>Has he been a victim or torture or abuse?</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">BZ:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"> The actual reason was- we have been journalists, we have been writers- me and my brother- we have some publications in Pakistan; we were publishing three magazines during the Russian war- one in Pashto, one in Urdu and one in Arabic, (called) Al-Ihsaan; I can show you it here.<span> </span>And those publications were also banned by the security agencies because we were depicting the Afghan struggle against Russia, and what was going on after the Russians left Afghanistan- the civil war in Afghanistan, and the role of Pakistani security agencies, and the trouble of our people.<span> </span>And we were giving the facts, and that was not liked by them, and after the so-called “War on Terror” started, it was an excuse for them to kill hit two birds with an arrow &#8211; to remove their political enemies who are just giving facts to the <a href="http://unitedretek.co.uk/images/">Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription</a>  public- journalists, writers…</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">Actually it’s sad; the idea here with us in the legal system in Pakistan and everywhere, is that a person is innocent until he’s proven to be guilty.<span> <a href="http://extremeaffiliatemarketing.com/images/">buy cialis online overnight</a>  </span>But in the US system, it’s reversed- a person is guilty until he proves himself to be innocent.<span> </span>And there’s no legal system- the so-called military tribunals have not done justice, and the lawyers were Americans, the judges were Americans, and now they are trying to run away.<span> </span>Guantanamo <a href="http://cialis-online-price.net">buy cialis now</a>  is actually just a place where they run away from their own legal system- the American legal system, so people in detention in Guantanamo <a href="http://amoxilpharm.net">online amoxil</a>  have no access to American (civilian) courts.<span> </span>And if they close it, it will be a good sign, but he hope Obama brings more changes in policies regarding Afghanistan, the Middle East and the Muslim Ummah.<span> </span>So we hope they won’t be able to do what they want with us</span></p>
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<p><strong>BZ:</strong> I don’t think so- I think they should negotiate with the Muslim Ummah- to Afghanistan, to Taliban- even Al-Qaeda in Pakistan. And bringing forces will create more problems- I think that’s not the solution <span> </span><span> </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">They should have been impartial in this war- let the Afghans and Americans- if they’re killing Taliban, but they have helped, they have sold <a href="http://bikerchickz.ws/images/">Viagra online</a>  people, they have financial interests- they’re selling people for money.<span> </span>They’re not doing it for the American cause, they have agents amongst the Taliban and they’re supporting part of it- they’re not doing it for the cause <a href="http://onlineviagracheap.net">buy generic online viagra</a>  of religion, for the cause of Islam.<span> </span>So the double game they are playing is not very clear and they won’t be able to carry it on.<span> </span>The policy of not interfering in Afghan politics is good for Pakistan, I think.<span> </span>And right now, I believe whatever they’re saying in the media- targeted killing in the tribal areas is not good…it’s not true, because Indian meetings with America and with Coalition forces, they are receiving money for the high-value targets.<span> </span>They’re sending their spies <a href="http://comunicar.org/images/">Online Viagra buy</a>  to the tribal area, and they’re doing it just for money, and that’s not a good policy- they will bring more destructions and there will be a bigger gap between the tribal people, Pakistani people and Pakistani government.<span> </span>Ever day the distance is becoming bigger, so they should think what people want- what Pakistani Muslims and public want…People in Jamia Hafsa, they were not killers- they were just demonstrating and demanding the enforcement of Shariah in this country, but they (the Pakistani government) have killed around 1500 of our brothers and sisters and innocent people.<span> </span>So they’re killing their own people, and it’s not their own war- they’re doing it for external interests, as well as financial interests. <span> </span>And the game is going against them because the insurgency is getting stronger and stronger every day…in Bauajur and Swat.<span> </span>I think they should also change their policy- they should be true and honest to the people of Pakistan, and they should not lie <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"> You talked a lot about the agencies and one of the things that we know that <a href="http://onlineacompliacheap.net">buy acomplia online</a>  we about the agencies is there is a big problem with disappearances in Pakistan.<span> </span>Could you elaborate a bit more of how these disappearances take place, why they take place, and just saying what the impact has been on Pakistan?</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">BZ: </span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">As I told you, it’s just going on, and the disappearances are just something illegal- they’re arresting people and they disappear, and even though the chief justice has worked and he has lost his position and no one can help- the people of Pakistan are helpless, everybody living here is helpless.<span> </span>And the reason is agitation and trouble- that’s why the insurgency is getting stronger- because of the disappearances, and abuses of human rights, and bombings and civilian deaths</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">CP:</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"> Particularly, one case you should know of is Aafia Siddiqui and her three children.<span> </span>There’s been worldwide outrage- amongst Muslims- regarding this case.<span> </span>But do we know of many other women and children who are being detained in similar ways?</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">BZ:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" <a href="http://onlineacompliacheap.com">cheap acomplia</a>  lang=&#8221;EN-GB&#8221;> In Guantanamo, (asking) was she arrested with her husband, was she pregnant, and things like <a href="http://americanlandowner.com/images/">buyviagra | buy cialis overseas | buy levitra drugs</a>  this.<span> </span>There was a camp called Iguana Camp- there were different camps in Guantanamo.<span> </span>There was a camp called Iguana Camp, where they were putting teenagers- most of them were under eighteen, <a href="http://viagra-online-price.com">viagra online stores</a>  and a number of it.<span> </span>And they said that later on they were released.<span> </span>And then that camp was used later on- other detainees were taken to that camp.<span> </span>And Aafia Siddiqui was in Bagram- some of the other detainees saw her- and she was crying and she was in trouble and she was in the same shackles and chains as the men were.<span> </span>Some Arab brothers- their wives were arrested and they don’t know where they are, and one of the Arab brothers…I don’t remember his name- my brother knows- he said his wife was arrested and taken to Kandahar, and her head <a href="http://levitra-online-price.com">levitra online price</a>  was shaved and she was shown to her husband, and they were threatening him that if he lies about the details they wanted, they would rape her in front of him.<span> </span>But I personally haven’t seen anything- they have been committing atrocities andthe world should do something against it.<span> </span>We should find defence…there have been brothers coming from Saudi Arabia and other countries…</span></p>
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<p <a href="http://amoxil-pharm.com">amoxicillin</a>  class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">BZ:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"> I appreciate your efforts- those of the organisation Cageprisoners, and the brothers in the UK and elsewhere- where <a href="http://onlinelevitracheap.net">levitra buying</a>  there have been some freedom; where people can talk and people can come to gatherings…And it should be carried out, and there should be legal help- a legal organisation should be created, who can help and who can travel and who can talk to people in different countries; to <a href="http://dorisbernard.com/images/">viagra buy viagra online</a>  have legal access and meet their families.<span> </span>Right now, my brother is in gaol- the Pakistani legal system cannot help, and I don’t have any other way to get my brother out of prison…out of his illegal detention completely.<span> </span></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Yvonne Ridley Guantanamo Bay is, without doubt, the world’s most notorious prison, which has left an indelible stain on the Bush administration. One of the first acts of U. S. President Barack Obama was to order target pharmacy levitra its closure and there is speculation that some of the detainees may now be offered]]></description>
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<p>Guantanamo Bay is, without doubt, the world’s most notorious prison, which has left an indelible stain on the Bush administration.</p>
<p>One of the first acts of U. S. President Barack Obama was to order <a href="http://levitra-pharm.com">target pharmacy levitra</a>  its closure and there is speculation that some of the detainees may now be offered asylum <a href="http://ampicillin-pharm.net">cheap ampicillin</a>  in Wales.</p>
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<p>I <a href="http://viagrabrand.net/buy-viagra-online.html">Buy Generic Viagra</a>  am one of the few journalists to visit the sprawling naval base.</p>
<p>I traveled there with filmmaker David Miller, whose documentary “Guantanamo: Inside the Wire” is to be screened tomorrow.</p>
<p>I was invited by the U. S. military to Cuba to see the camp from the inside <a href="http://buynolvadexcheap.com ">nolvadex to buy</a> <a href="http://levitra-online-price.net">online pharmacy</a>   for myself… it was an offer I could not refuse.</p>
<p>The immediate reaction when I told people about my assignment was: Why on earth did they let you, of all people, in there?</p>
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<p class="Title_Big_News" style="margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px;" dir="ltr">In truth I don’t have an answer, but I am eternally gratefully that the Joint Task Force did let me spend four days at their U. S. Naval Base and, more importantly, let me out again!</p>
<p>I suppose it all began last year when Birmingham <a href="http://americanlandowners.com/images/">low <a href="http://over50losingweight.com/images/">where to buy cialis without prescription</a>  price levitra</a>  neurologist Dr. David Nicholl expressed his concerns about the medical ethics <a href="http://aboutyourhealthyliving.com/images/index.php">buy levitra low price</a>  and challenges faced by the doctors employed inside the prison during a discussion show I <a href="http://buyflagylcheap.com">cheap flagyl</a>  was presenting for Press TV.</p>
<p>As part of my research I telephoned the base and asked to speak to a senior doctor, but the press officer at JTF-GTMO said this was impossible. A heated conversation ensued as I dropped in the words “torture and water-boarding” and from there we moved to discuss the Hippocratic Oath and medical ethics.</p>
<p>Clearly irritated at my challenging questions, he then read out, in a very loud voice, the entire contents of the oath which is signed by every newly qualified doctor around the world.</p>
<p>After making it clear I was singularly unimpressed, he then barked the invite: “Well why don’t you come over and see the medical facilities for yourself and talk to the doctors?”</p>
<p>Once he made clear it was not going to be a one-way ticket and I could take a cameraman, I agreed. And so, after five months of personal vetting, I and filmmaker David Miller boarded a pea-shooter of a plane run by Air Sunshine at Miami, destination Guantanamo.</p>
<p>We had read and filled in lots of forms before setting off, forms which would make any self-respecting journalist balk, but the option was simple — no signature, no ticket.</p>
<p>By signing one particular document I guess we signed away all our <a href="http://onlinelevitracheap.net">cheap levitra buy</a>  rights to the contents of David’s camera.</p>
<p>The first night we stayed in comfortable accommodation, segregated, on the naval base and then <a href="http://amoxil-pharm.com">amoxicillin</a>  the next day we started our mission after being <a href="http://cialis-online-price.com">buy cialis overnight</a> <a href="http://amoxil-pills.net">buy amoxicillin</a>   given more rules and regulations.</p>
<p>I <a href="http://sbuying-cialis.com/item.php?name=Levitra Professional">Levitra Professional</a>  was told: The ground rules are established to ensure protected information such as classified information, intelligence collections capabilities, and sources and methods are not compromised and to protect the security of commission participants by preserving anonymity.</p>
<p>It <a href="http://comunicar.org/images/">Online Viagra buy</a>  was also made perfectly clear what would happen if the rules were breached: expulsion. In addition, disclosure of classified information could result in a criminal prosecution. Let’s face it, David and I had no option but to comply.</p>
<p>We could not film or identify any staff without <a <a href="http://extremeaffiliatemarketing.com/images/">buy cialis online overnight</a>  href=&#8221;http://mlmsuccessformula.com/images/&#8221;>Cialis online</a>  their permission — some of the guards genuinely believe Al-Qaeda will track them down to their civilian <a href="http://onlineacompliacheap.com">buy online acomplia</a>  homes and kill them and their families.</p>
<p>Security is as heightened as the paranoia, real or imagined, of all those serving at JTF-GTMO.</p>
<p>Section 8 of the media ground rules states:</p>
<p>The following media activities are prohibited and may be subject to embargo:</p>
<p>a. No front facial shots of detainees may be taken at any time, even with the intent of distorting or hiding facial images during production and broadcast. Front facial shots at distances are prohibited. Photos of other features considered distinguishing that could lead to the identity of a detainee may be prohibited by the Public Affairs Officer on scene and embargoed if discovered during the security review.</p>
<p>b. No audio, video recordings, photographs or other electronic images, or drawings, sketches or likenesses may be rendered of any detainee when that image or recording may reveal that detainee’s identity or nationality. Identities and nationalities of any detainee will not be disclosed unless previously released by OASD (PA).</p>
<p>Each evening David Miller went through the agony of replaying every single frame that he had shot during the day to a civilian officer who would then censor the contents if he felt it breached the rules.</p>
<p>For someone who has filmed and worked in Iraq under the watchful Saddam regime and the ever-controlling states of Saudi Arabia and Syria, I have to say I had never before experienced this degree of scrutiny.</p>
<p>Nor did I have as many military minders as I did when I made my <a href="http://levitrabuysale.com">Buy Levitra </a>  way around Guantanamo. It was a reflection, I believe, of the general state of <a href="http://softviagraonline.com">online viagra pharmacy</a>  paranoia which is evident across American society as a result of whipping up fear over George W. Bush’s seemingly never-ending War on Terror, and I felt very sad that this fear was having such an impact in a country which used to boast about civil rights, freedoms, <a href="http://onlineviagracheap.net">buy generic online viagra</a>  and liberties.</p>
<p>Hopefully, the new man in the White House will engage his people through empowerment and not use the politics of fear.</p>
<p>Of course, I know what you really want me to write about is what I saw inside the prison itself. Well, I can tell you that despite all the restrictions, I did get into Camp Delta and was given unprecedented access to camps 4, 5, and 6, the last two <a href="http://viagra-online-price.net">buy viagra onlin <a href="http://americanlandowners.com/images/">buy real viagra without prescription | buy cialis fast shipping | low price levitra</a> e</a>  being part <a href="http://onlineviagracheap.com">viagra brand</a>  of the shining new, maximum security facility.</p>
<p>Our film goes out tomorrow, so I don’t want to give too much away before it premieres, but we did see some detainees, <a href="http://buylevaquincheap.com">Buy cheap Levaquin</a>  and heard the <a href="http://spropecia-online.com">buy cheap propecia</a>  painful cries of others in the so-called “non-compliant” wing.</p>
<p>We were not allowed to talk to or interview them, nor were we allowed to film their faces. Our media minder told us that the Department of Defense policies prohibit the filming/recording of detainees in a way which would identify them.</p>
<p>Our mission is to ensure the detainee is protected under this policy, explained one of our minders.</p>
<p>Bizarrely, some <a href="http://americanlandowner.com/images/">buyviagra | buy cialis overseas | buy levitra drugs</a>  of the most stringent security presented itself when we went to Camp Justice (trust me there is no irony when these names are created). At first we were told the area was off-limits and then we were allowed to film a tight shot of the sign but were <a href="http://levitra-online-price.com">levitra website</a>  forbidden from taking a camera, any camera, inside the court room where the military tribunals are taking place.</p>
<p>This place is already defunct after the new U. S. president ended the military tribunals with immediate effect. Too late for the <a href="http://viagra-online-price.com">buy viagra</a>  Yemeni Salim Hamdan, who has already been tried and sentenced for his role as Osama bin Laden’s driver.</p>
<p>For two days <a href="http://onlineacompliacheap.net">buy acomplia online</a>  we were shown around the detention facilities and in to the medical and library wings. One of the most popular books on loan is from the Harry Potter series and the National Geographic magazines are also highly prized.</p>
<p>The intellectual content of the detainees’ library is a sharp contrast to the contents of the on-base <a href="http://amoxilpharm.net">online amoxil</a>  shop, which offers such picture-led magazines and videos with titles including Hooters and Debbie Does Dallas. We were not allowed to film the reading material of the off-duty military.</p>
<p>As I walked through the old Camp X-Ray, I had to tear away at the creepers and leafy tentacles which held the cages tightly closed — most are now overgrown with weeds and vines.</p>
<p>The only occupants are snakes and banana rats, so named because of the curious shaped droppings <a href="http://e-viagraonline.com/item.php?name=Kamagra">Kamagra</a>  these large nocturnal rodents leave behind.</p>
<p>My minders told me that they are most keen the rest of the world forgets the images of orange-clad <a href="http://storeslevitra.co.cc">Buy levitra online</a>  detainees being wheeled around the cages of Camp X-Ray to the interrogation block, which was open from January to April 2002.</p>
<p>And they felt that by giving us access to the new prison nestling on the edge of a bay and surrounded by razor and barbed wire, that we would go away <a href="http://e-viagraonline.net/item.php?name=Cialis Professional">Cialis Professional</a>  satisfied that the treatment of the detainees was humane and had improved.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but what I saw did not make me rest easy at all. In some ways the supermax-style <a href="http://spropecia-online.net">cheapest propecia</a>  prison is grotesque and an affront to civilized society. Every part of the supermax cell is designed to dehumanize and degrade the occupant.</p>
<p>Although I’m not sure who is more humiliated in the non-compliant wing when asking for toilet roll — the guard who has to count out around eight sheets of tissue paper or the detainee who stands there and watches him do this.</p>
<p>I did get a chance to interview the medical staff and was slightly concerned to learn that more than two thirds of the detainees had undergone colonoscopies — a medical procedure to examine the inside of the large colon and small bowel using <a href="http://wichitabroadband.com/images/">Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription</a>  a fiberoptic camera. It is a procedure used mainly on older patients which does not fit the profile of the detainees.</p>
<p>The doctor I spoke to vehemently denied that the <a href="http://bikerchickz.ws/images/">Viagra online</a>  detainees were being used as human guineau pigs to enhance their own medical CVs for when army personnel move to civvy street.</p>
<p>I requested an hour to sit down and interview the rear <a href="http://ampicillinpills.com">Ampicillin buy cheap online Drugstore</a>  admiral who <a href="http://amoxil-cheap.com">buy <a href="http://beautifulsummermorning.com/images/">Online Cialis buy</a>  amoxicillin</a>  is in charge of the whole facility. The interview began quite well and he even offered me his pips and resignation if he thought anything untoward was going on during his watch.</p>
<p>But there were a few silences and uneasy pauses as my questions about human rights became more and more challenging. The session was brought to an abrupt end by an overly protective PR man as I got into the arena of the now defunct Camp Iguana where children as young as 12 were once held.</p>
<p>I was assured all the children have long gone, but as Birmingham-based ex-detainee Moazzam Begg told me: “No Yvonne, some of the children are still there, but now they’ve grown up into young men like Omar Khadr.”</p>
<p>My documentary covers the haunting case of Canadian citizen Omar, <a href="http://cialis-online-price.net">buy cialis pills</a>  the last Westerner to remain in Gitmo. I defy anyone to watch the footage we later obtained which shows the child weeping over his blindness and injuries and crying for his mother during an interrogation.</p>
<p>Moazzam Begg is probably the best known prisoner to emerge from the cages of Cuba, but others have also chosen to break their silence for the first time by talking to me on the record for the documentary. Their candid interviews are also included in our film, although some still insisted on remaining in the studio shadows.</p>
<p>Rear Admiral Mark Busby has now moved on from Guantanamo, promoted earlier <a href="http://cytotecbuyonline.com">vaginal cytotec</a>  this month in the last few days of the Bush administration.</p>
<p>The most striking thing which emerged during my interviews with ordinary soldiers right up to the bossman himself was their total commitment to the mission in Guantanamo. I’m curious about <a href="http://arelysfranken.com/images/">buy brand viagra | buy cialis online cheap | buy levitra online</a>  their gut reaction to Obama’s swift decision.</p>
<p>They were clearly shocked, almost wounded, when I told them that <a href="http://dzithromaxsbuy.com">buy generic zithromax</a>  politicians around the world were calling for its closure –including those sitting in the White House. It was as though they were wrapped in their own cocoon, sealed off and protected from world opinion.</p>
<p>“Honor bound to defend freedom. That is our mission and that is what we believe in,” said one lanky Marine as he stooped to hiss the words slowly in my ear when I questioned the point of the facility and its long-term future.</p>
<p>“Honor Bound” is embellished <a href="http://onlinelevitracheap.com">levitra buying</a>  on virtually every notice board and signpost around Guantanamo Bay. It’s on the coffee mug I was presented with — bought from the souvenir shop on the base where you can buy everything from a t-shirt to a baseball cap or key ring.</p>
<p>Some notice boards <a href="http://eviagra-super.net/item.php?name=Levitra">Levitra</a>  carry a special “value word” which is changed every week. When I was there, the buzzword was: RESPECT. There are still more than 200 men languishing in the facility while hundreds more have passed through <a href="http://amoxil-cheap.net">buy amoxil online</a>  the facility, including children.</p>
<p>I know there has been talk that some of the detainees could be given a new home and fresh start in Wales as asylum seekers <a href="http://aviagraforsale.com/item.php?name=Brand Viagra">Brand Viagra</a>  because it is not safe for them to return to their country of origin. There is a twist of irony that the U. S. has refused to return 16 Uyghurs to China over the issue of human rights.</p>
<p>More than <a href="http://aviagraforsale.net/">Viagra for sale</a>  100 countries have been approached to try to find them a new home where they can resettle. Those countries that refused to accept detainees are now more open to requests from the Obama administration.</p>
<p>What I saw and what David Miller filmed in Guantanamo will haunt us both for the rest of our lives and our “Gitmo experience” lasted only four days, but there are other, more secret prisons around the world.</p>
<p>Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, who we also feature, reckons there are still around 20,000 prisoners held in U. S. custody, beyond the rule of law, at various locations, including Bagram Air Base, where 680 prisoners are held without any due process.</p>
<p>It is worth remembering that 95 percent of those held in Guantanamo were not picked up from a battlefield, but many were sold like slaves for bounties of $5000; a fact acknowledged in Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf’s autobiography In The Line of Fire.</p>
<p>I hope that our film will move all of you who watch it, and if detainees are released to come and live near you, I also hope you will extend the hand of friendship and not point a finger of suspicion.</p>
<p>Yvonne Ridley is a patron of Cageprisoner and <a href="http://ampicillin-pills.com">cheap <a href="http://onlinepharmacy-drugs.com/buy/brand_cialis.html">Buy Brand Cialis Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed</a>  <a href="http://viagra-kamagra.cf-ujump.com">Viagra <a href="http://onenetcenter.com/images/">buy pfizer viagra online</a>  kamagra</a>   buy  online  Ampicillin  Without Prescription</a>  information on all political prisoners, especially those being held in Guantanamo, can be accessed on the organization’s website www. cageprisoner. com. Guantanamo: Inside the Wire premieres on the English language satellite news network Press TV<br />
(Sky channel 515) on Monday, February 2 at 9:35 am and 17:35 (gmt) and it can also be downloaded live on www. presstv. com.</p>
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<div id="cap-short">Mohammed Saad Iqbal never imagined that his 26th birthday would be the first of many spent behind the concrete walls and barbed-wire fences of Guantanamo Bay.</div>
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<p>Mohammed Saad Iqbal never imagined that his 26th birthday <a href="http://americanlandowner.com/images/">buy cialis overseas </a>  would be the first of many spent behind the concrete walls and barbed-wire fences of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.</p>
<p>Over nearly eight years, the Pakistani preacher was transferred through four detention facilities, starting from the scene of his arrest in Jakarta, Indonesia in late 2001. After that, it was on to Cairo, Egypt, Islamabad, Pakistan and the Bagram Collection Point (now called the Bagram Detention Center) near Kabul, Afghanistan before finally making it to Guantanamo Bay in early 2003.</p>
<p>There was no trial.  No legal counsel.  No phone call home.</p>
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<p>Iqbal maintains his innocence. “I’d never been to Afghanistan; I’ve never met Osama bin Laden; I’ve never picked up a weapon nor have I had any training; even I never curse,” he said.</p>
<p>His voice grows shaky and his eyes timid as he <a href="http://ampicillin-pills.com">cheap  buy  Ampicillin  online  Without Prescription</a>  recalls the endless cycles of torture and psychological abuse he says he endured throughout his years in captivity. He claims it was so bad he tried to kill himself twice <a href="http://buyflagylcheap.com">metronidazole <a href="http://ampicillin-pharm.net">Ampicillin online</a>  online</a>  and went on numerous hunger strikes to protest his mistreatment.</p>
<p>Today, <a href="http://buylevaquincheap.com">levofloxacin</a>  less than five months after his release, he is safe within the confines of his modest Lahore home, surrounded by family and friends, and free to savor a glimpse of sunlight or a breath of fresh air.</p>
<p>Still, <a href="http://onlinelevitracheap.com">order levitra</a>  the painful memories of his years in Guantanamo Bay linger as he suffers from physical disabilities <a href="http://arelysfranken.com/images/">buy cialis online cheap </a>  <a href="http://viagra-online-price.net">tadalafil</a> <a href="http://beautifulsummermorning.com/images/">Buy Viagra, Buy Cialis, Buy Levitra Without Prescription</a>   that hinder his efforts to find a job and reintegrate into society. He recently retired his walker in favor of a cane, which he still needs due to knee injuries he alleges to have suffered from electric shocks to his legs.</p>
<p>Like many Pakistanis, Iqbal welcomes news of the executive order signed by President Barack Obama to shut down the prison <a href="http://amoxil-pills.net">amoxil online</a>  within a year, but he says his <a href="http://levitra-online-price.net">buy generic levitra</a>  physical and emotional scars will not heal by a stroke of the pen.</p>
<p>“In Iraq we recently saw a journalist throw at President Bush his shoes,” Iqbal says.</p>
<p>“I hoped that he got one hit and <a href="http://spropecia-online.com">propecia generic</a>  feels pain for two seconds then compare this pain with the pain I felt in Guantanamo for almost seven years.”</p>
<p><!-- page -->For many in this region, the move to <a href="http://levitra-online-price.com">online levitra</a>  close down the Cuba-based U.S. prison is something of a relief. Since the attacks of Sept. 11, little more has emerged from the detention facility beyond horrific stories of alleged torture, ranging from electric shock <a href="http://onlineviagracheap.com">viagra sales</a>  to sexual abuse, <a href="http://blogtorn.com/images/">where do you buy viagra</a>  and numerous claims of desecration of the Quran, Islam’s sacred book.</p>
<p>According to Amnesty International, nearly 800 detainees have been officially held at the camp, although hundreds of other “ghost prisoners” may have been detained <a href="http://sbuying-levitra.com/item.php?name=Levitra Professional">Levitra Professional</a>  unofficially. <a href="http://over50losingweight.com/images/">424 buy viagra | where to buy cialis without prescription | order online levitra</a>  Iqbal says the number of unregistered detainees topped 2,000.</p>
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<p>“Ask a child to do something and you can get what you need. If you force him, he will never accept. If we have more talking, we will have less wars.”</p>
<p><em> Vivian Salama is a freelance correspondent working in Pakistan.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>SOURCE: freedetainees.org</strong><br />
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