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In one block, a heavily accented voice rang out, sneering at the festivities: "Are you dreaming of a white Christmas?" There was plenty of snow at Christmas when the prisoners were held in the freezing cages of Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, shivering through their first winter of captivity. Rumsfeld's cover memo assured us that "this technique is NOT sleep deprivation", but with the prisoners awake all night it would have been difficult for Father Christmas to drop off presents in secret.
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A Tiny Light to a Happier Future
It was against regulations, but some guards appeared on the prison block wearing silly red hats. The prisoners, I remember, were nonplussed. Many of the men from the backroads of Yemen or Afghanistan had nev...
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