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   From: pedro1940@progression.net   
      
         So reads the jaw-dropping headline in today's Sunday Telegraph (London).   
   It tells the story of Mohammed Ismail Agha, 15, an Afghan boy who spent 14   
   months in detention as a terrorist suspect at the Guantánamo Bay base. In   
   the first interview    
   with one of the three juveniles held there, Mohammed spoke to a reporter in   
   southern Afghanistan, close to his home village:   
      
         They gave me a good time in Cuba. They were very nice to me, giving me   
   English lessons. … At first I was unhappy … For two or three days   
   [after I arrived in Cuba] I was confused but later the Americans were so nice   
   to me. They gave me    
   good food with fruit and water for ablutions and prayer.   
       The American soldiers taught him and the two other underage captives to   
   write and speak a little English and supplied them with books in their native   
   Pashto language. As the three boys departed the base, U.S. soldiers gave them   
   a send-off dinner. "   
   They even took photographs of us all together before we left," Agha said.   
      
       As the Sunday Telegraph notes, these words of praise echo those of Faiz   
   Mohammed, an elderly Afghan farmer released in October 2002 after spending   
   eight months at Guantánamo: "They treated us well. We had enough food. I   
   didn't mind [being detained]   
    because they took my old clothes and gave me new clothes."   
      
       These testimonies need to be remembered at a time when so-called human   
   rights agencies insist that the U.S. detention of prisoners in Guantánamo   
   is immoral, contravenes international law, and so on.   
      
         
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