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Old 02-22-2009, 12:40 PM
 
Location: toronto, Canada
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The criticisms have emerged from Dr Fadl's cell in Tora prison in southern Cairo, where a sand-coloured perimeter wall is lined with watchtowers, each holding a sentry wielding a Kalashnikov assault rifle. Torture inside Egyptian jails is "widespread and systematic", according to Amnesty International.

Zawahiri has alleged that his former comrade was tortured into recanting. But the al-Qaeda leader still felt the need to compose a detailed, 200-page rebuttal of his antagonist.


Al-Qaeda founder launches fierce attack on Osama bin Laden - Telegraph


Begs the question though, why was this the only time in the last 5 years, that Eqyptian authorities have allowed a prisoner to publish anything from behind Tora's barbaric confines?



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I have a feeling I would recant Copernicus' theory of a Heliocentric cosmology, and swear my parents were sent here by the devil, in this U.S sponsored torture prison.

Amnesty International's Egyptian wing have been releasing reports for longer than 10 years on its horrors.
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights Press Release - Death in silence and seclusion

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