Word: cuba
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Pearl never came home again. In two e-mails from "kidnapperguy," a previously unheard of group called the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty demanded, among other things, that the U.S. release Pakistani detainees being held in Cuba and the U.S. They accused Pearl of being a spy, first for the CIA, later for the Israeli Mossad. The charges were so absurd that experts immediately looked elsewhere for the real motives at work...
Those Captives in Cuba...
UNITED STATES Prayer Protest An improvised turban caused a hunger strike at Camp X-Ray, Cuba among suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban captives. Turbans had been banned, lest they conceal weapons. When one man used a bedsheet to cover his head during prayers, guards ordered it removed. In protest nearly two-thirds of the 300 inmates went on a hunger strike. Most relented when camp commander General Mike Lehnert conceded that they would be allowed turbans and that they would be kept informed about their legal status...
...just months after seizing power in Cuba, Fidel Castro traveled to Cambridge to speak at the Harvard Law School. More than 40 years later, an official for Castro’s regime recently began a semester-long stint as a visiting professor at another Harvard graduate school...
Coyula-Cowley’s colleagues dismissed the notion that the professor’s ties to Communist Cuba would compromise his academic integrity...