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 7 Years In Chains     : Information Clearing House - ICH

7 Years In Chains : Information Clearing House - ICH: "7 Years In Chains

Detained At 14, Tortured and Released At 21

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El-Gharani was treated with appalling brutality. After being tortured in Pakistani custody, he was sold to US forces, who flew him to a prison at Kandahar airport, where, he said, one particular soldier “would hold my penis, with scissors, and say he’d cut it off."

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