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U.S. Exaggerated Danger & Importance of Guantanamo Bay Detainees

HeadlineJun 21, 2004

The New York Times is reporting today that the detainees held in isolation at Guantanamo Bay have produced little useful intelligence and that maybe no more than a dozen of the 600 detainees are sworn members of Al Qaeda. The Times concludes “government and military officials have repeatedly exaggerated both the danger the detainees posed and the intelligence they have provided. The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon whether the US government can legally detain the men there indefinitely without ever pressing charges.

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