McLatchy: Torture RE-authorized in '03


	McLatchy: Torture RE-authorized in '03

masbury

4-30-2009 5:01 PM

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torture, iraq

masbury says:

to extort prisoners to "confess" a phony link between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein

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