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For U.S., language is complicit in 'torture'

Published Friday, February 25, 2005

In November 2003, Manadel al Jamadi, one of the CIA's so-called "ghost detainees," died at Abu Ghraib prison. Military authorities classified his death as a "homicide." The world learned of his existence last year, when photographs surfaced of prison guards giving the thumbs-up sign over his swollen corpse then preserved in ice.

Fortunately, thanks to newly released military records and interviews with personnel who were present, there is no further reason to speculate over what might have killed al Jamadi. We now know that he died as a result of something called "Palestinian...

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