Al-Jazeera Journalist Freed From Guantanamo After 6 Years


	Al-Jazeera Journalist Freed From Guantanamo After 6 Years

papananook

5-3-2008 1:15 PM

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papananook says:

When is that atrocity gonna be closed? Shite, Alcatraz was a better place. Maybe i exaggerate.

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