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AP Lies on Binyam Mohammed

An Associated Press report in today’s Washington Post declares (emphasis mine):

Intelligence ties between London and Washington have been jeopardized by a British court’s disclosure that a terrorism suspect was beaten and shackled in U.S. custody, diplomats and security officials said Wednesday.

This is patently untrue. Here are the paragraphs that were revealed on the Foreign Office website. Nowhere do they say that Binyam Mohammed was “beaten.” AP owes a retraction.

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