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by being stripped naked: "they took me into interrogation completely naked. They asked me if I knew Osama bin Laden. I said, 'Fuck bin Laden and fuck your wife, too. Bin Laden came and destroyed our nation, and you came and destroyed our nation. But at least bin Laden was a Muslim and did not
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published articles based on interviews with 66 former
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published a portion of their interview with Farouq. In the interview he said everyone in his province had welcomed the
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