Word: khans
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...circ.: 3.7 million), the Mirror's archrival, have done the most to crack the Mirror. They managed to procure a statement Burrell had prepared for his lawyers' eyes only - the lawyers say it must have been stolen - full of salacious details: Diana once greeted her lover Hasnat Khan, a heart surgeon, at Kensington Palace stark naked except for diamond earrings and a fur coat; she liked to buy pregnancy tests as a joke; Burrell sneaked her lovers into the palace in the trunk of his car and gave them breakfast after she had left. The Sun dubbed him the "Blabbermouth...
...Like all detainees, Khan was shorn of his beard, stripped, forced into a bright orange jump suit, clapped into earmuffs so he couldn't hear and black goggles that obscured his eyesight. In chains, he was led onto a plane for the longest, strangest trip of his life - to Guantanamo...
...worry about me," Khan later wrote, trying to cheer up his family. "I'm happy. I've even given up smoking." According to the letter, like all Guantanamo inmates he lives in a 6.8-by-8 feet cell with a copy of the Koran for company. For 30 minutes every week, he is allowed out of this cage to exercise with his feet shackled. He and all other so-called "enemy combatants" were recently moved from Camp X-Ray to the larger Camp Delta several miles away, where the army is building an extra 204 cells for future captives...
...Most of Guantanamo's 598 detainees are indeed al-Qaeda terrorists. But, as U.S. authorities are finally conceding, the lovelorn Khan - and perhaps as many as 100 other captives - simply aren't. They were grabbed by mistake in the chaos of battle. As Rumsfeld said last week: "If you don't want them for intelligence, and you don't want them for law enforcement ... then let's be rid of them...
...Soon, however, a batch of mistakenly detained captives is likely to be sent home. Among the first to "come down the chute", as Rumsfeld put it, are a handful Pakistanis. Back in the village, Issa Khan's family waits hopefully for his return. "We'll send a convoy of cars from the village to pick him up, with music and everything," promises his father Azeem. "Then we'll help him find his wife and baby in Afghanistan." Clutching a photo of his son, Azeem says: "No, I don't hold any grudge against the Americans." Then he adds with...