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 my fellow prisoners in Guant!namo was at sea on an American ship with 
 about 50 others before coming to Guant!namo. He told me that there were 
 about 50 other people on the ship; they were all closed off in the 
 bottom. The people detained on the ship were beaten even more severely 
 than in Guant!namo." 
  
 The most incriminating evidence of all, however, has come not from 
 opponents of Guant!namo, or, indirectly, from those subjected to some 
 of the regime's most horrendous abuses, but from an upstanding insider. 
 Barry McCaffrey, a retired four-star US general, who is now professor 
 of international security studies at the West Point military academy, 
 has twice let slip that Diego Garcia has, as the administration's 
 opponents have struggled to maintain, been used to hold terror 
 suspects. In May 2004, he blithely declared, "We're probably holding 
 around 3,000 people, you know, Bagram air field, Diego Garcia, 
 Guant!namo, 16 camps throughout Iraq," and in December 2006 he slipped 
 the leash again, saying, "They're behind bars ... we've got them on 
 Diego Garcia, in Bagram air field, in Guant!namo." 
  
 Do we need any further proof? 
  
 [Andy Worthington is a British historian, and the author of 'The 
 Guant!namo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal 
 Prison' (to be published by Pluto Press in October 2007). He can be 
 reached at: andy@andyworthington.co.uk ] 
  
  
  
  
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