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keep it extremely cold." Kassem said, "It is decrepit, filthy, and disgusting. Those are the words he used to describe it." He added that Aamer also told him the cells were not large enough to allow prisoners to pray and that the conditions were "akin to those of a
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The cells are half the size of the cells in other parts of Camp Five. One has to be a contortionist to pray or use the toilet. The place was designed by fiends," he told AFP, calling it "a return to the early days of the camps, when brutality and sadism were the order of the
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