WikiLeaks: Guantanamo Bay Secrets Revealed (1,000s of Pages From Ten Years)

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Source: Telegraph / Washington Post

WikiLeaks: Guantanamo Bay terrorist secrets revealed

The files detail the background to the capture of each of the 780 people who have passed through the Guantanamo facility in Cuba

By Christopher Hope, Robert Winnett, Holly Watt and Heidi Blake
Last Updated: 1:06AM BST 25/04/2011
Guantanamo Bay has been used to incarcerate dozens of terrorists who have admitted plotting terrifying attacks against the West – while imprisoning more than 150 totally innocent people, top-secret files disclose.

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However, the shocking human cost of obtaining this intelligence is also exposed with dozens of innocent people sent to Guantanamo – and hundreds of low-level foot-soldiers being held for years and probably tortured before being assessed as of little significance.

The Daily Telegraph, along with other newspapers including The Washington Post, today exposes America’s own analysis of almost ten years of controversial interrogations on the world’s most dangerous terrorists. This newspaper has been shown thousands of pages of top-secret files obtained by the WikiLeaks website.

The disclosures are set to spark intense debate around the world about the establishment of Guantanamo Bay in the months after 9/11 – which has enabled the US to collect vital intelligence from senior Al Qaeda commanders but sparked fury in the middle east and Europe over the treatment of detainees.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8471907/WikiLeaks-Guantanamo-Bay-terrorist-secrets-revealed.html