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Suspect in Torture Case Was Imprisoned For Reading Magazine's H-Bomb Satire

By Susie Madrak Tuesday Feb 10, 2009 2:45pm

Mind you, this is the man for whose case the Obama administration is citing the state secrets act. This could be any one of us:

A British ‘resident’ held at Guantanamo Bay was identified as a terrorist after confessing he had visited a ‘joke’ website on how to build a nuclear weapon, it was revealed last night.

Binyam Mohamed, a former UK asylum seeker, admitted to having read the ‘instructions’ after allegedly being beaten, hung up by his wrists for a week and having a gun held to his head in a Pakistani jail.

It was this confession that apparently convinced the CIA that they were holding a top Al Qaeda terrorist.

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You can't make this stuff up. I have to admit I haven't confirmed this story in a MSM source. If if turns out to be untrue I'll delete. But it has that ring of verismilitude to me. Tom