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Guantanamo
Bay

• October 25 -- More
Hard-Luck Stories from Guantanamo Inmates
Tim Golden has two huge front-page stories on the military and diplomatic
struggles over the inmates at Guantanamo Bay: "Many of the detainees sent
to Guantánamo turned out to be low-level militants, Taliban fighters and men
simply caught in the wrong place at the wrong time." Not until the last
four paragraphs does Golden note some released prisoners are now fighting
American troops in Iraq.
• August 25 -- Harping
on Overseas Unpopularity of Guantanamo
We get the point, Neil.
• March 12 -- Gall
Over Youths In Guantanamo
Carlotta Gall talks to three Afghan youths released from Guantanamo Bay, but
while even the liberal London Guardian quoted the boys about how much they liked
Guantanamo and Americans, Gall ignored those positive views and focused on
concerns about their captivity.
• February 6 -- "Conservatives" Against Death Penalty, Patriot Act
Chris Hedges' latest "Public Lives" profile ostensibly deals with a conservative Republican figure--one who is passionately anti-death penalty and calls the Patriot Act "a serious erosion of the rule of law."
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