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When Mohammed el Gorani was a boy in Saudi Arabia, he found that he could not find good work or education because his family was from Chad. A friend from Pakistan offered to connect him with relatives there who would help him get educated. He took his work savings and flew to Pakistan, where he was kidnapped by local thugs and sold to the US Army as an Al Qaeda operative. He was tortured by the thugs, then tortured by the Army, then sent to Guantanamo for six years, where he was tortured further.

Memoir of a child kidnapped to Guantanamo Bay, tortured for six years, and released

December 14, 2011
Right = Wrong

Someone’s paying attention

I’ve been saying it for years now — that the Bush administration uses terror alerts and the like to distract us when he’s under criticism. I’ve been far too lazy to compile a list (although you  [more...]

October 14, 2005
Right = Wrong

Look for the union label

Some woman interviewed on Morning Edition this morning says of same-sex marriage that it should be called something else. “I just don’t want them forcing it on me. Let them find their own word.” Let me  [more...]

July 28, 2004

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