Ex-Detainees Rip U.S. Network of Prisons; Many Say They Were Interrogated Around the Clock, Then Later Released Without Apology

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to Guantanamo, the U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons, its islands of high security keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law.

Disclosures of torture and longterm arbitrary detentions have won rebuke from leading voices including the U.N. secretary-general and the U.S. Supreme Court. But the bitterest words come from inside the system, the size of several major U.S. penitentiaries.

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Ex-Detainees Rip U.S. Network of Prisons; Many Say They Were Interrogated Around the Clock, Then Later Released Without Apology

"It was hard to believe I'd get out," Baghdad shopkeeper Amjad Qassim al-Aliyawi told The Associated Press after his release - without charge - last month. "I lived with the Americans for one year and eight months as if I was living in hell."

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