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Article: ISLAMIC PRESS GIVES NEW MEANING TO HYPERBOLE.(OPINION)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- March 8, 2002
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If you thought the British press was over the top with its criticism of the treatment of Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, you ain't seen nothing yet.
An article by Rif'at Sayyid Ahmad, titled "Guantanamo, the Auschwitz of the American era" recently appeared in the Lebanese daily Al-Liwa. It said:
"...This detention camp is the outcome of the crime of the destruction of Afghanistan -- 30,000 dead and hundreds of villages destroyed!!" (The author apparently missed the recent reports that put the number of civilian dead at less than 1,000.)
The Guantanamo prisoners are "placed in iron cages like animals and treated with a cruelty rarely ...