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Article: Death In a Libyan Jail Cell.(Scope)(Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi)
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- Newsweek
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- May 25, 2009
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Byline: Michael Isikoff And Mark Hosenball
The Obama Administration is pressing the Libyan government to explain the reported prison death of a former CIA detainee--an incident that U.S. officials fear could reopen questions about the agency's "extraordinary rendition" program and further complicate the president's plans to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention center. According to human-rights groups, the body of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi--once one of the U.S. government's prize captives--was turned over to family members last week after they were told he had committed suicide at Tripoli's Abu Salim prison by hanging himself with a bedsheet. But U.S. officials are ...
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