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Monday, June 11, 2007

HELL ON EARTH

Ghost Prisoners

Shackled, gagged and blindfolded, they are bundled on to spy planes, spirited to Third World capitals and dumped in prison hellholes. There they face repeated interrogations that typically include prolonged sessions of torture, crudely inflicted, unimaginably endured.

A few of these men, like Canada’s Maher Arar, whisked off the streets of New York to Syria, or Australia’s Mamdouh Habib, captured in Pakistan and delivered to Egypt’s intelligence service, eventually emerge to tell their chilling stories. Dozens remain unaccounted for.

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