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Muslimedia.com: "2,000 days after the opening of Guantanamo Bay: remembering the US’s abuses of human rights
While Americans celebrate the US Declaration of Independence on July 4, campaigners around the world will mark the 2,000th day since the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre on January 11, 2002. In this issue, FAHAD ANSARI discusses the differences between the ideals that the US claims to represent and its own behaviour in the world today."

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