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Food writer's online guide to building an H-bomb...the 'evidence' that put this man in Guantanamo | Mail Online

Food writer's online guide to building an H-bomb...the 'evidence' that put this man in Guantanamo | Mail Online: "A British ‘resident’ held at Guantanamo Bay was identified as a terrorist after confessing he had visited a ‘joke’ website on how to build a nuclear weapon, it was revealed last night.

Binyam Mohamed, a former UK asylum seeker, admitted to having read the ‘instructions’ after allegedly being beaten, hung up by his wrists for a week and having a gun held to his head in a Pakistani jail.

It was this confession that apparently convinced the CIA that they were holding a top
Al Qaeda terrorist."

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