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...secretary, the Pope is said to have had a father-son relationship with Dziwisz. That has turned around in recent years. "Dziwisz takes care of everything from handing the Pope a tissue to helping him make important decisions and choosing who can see him," says Polish journalist Marek Lehnert, who has spent 20 years covering the Vatican...
...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...
...says the U.S. doesn't negotiate with terrorists? Camp X-Ray commander Marine Gen. Michael Lehnert came one step closer to moving all 300 of the Camp X-Ray "battlefield detainees" to suites at the Miami Hilton, reversing previously immovable policy and allowing them to make turbans out of their bedsheets - as long as the sheets were subject to inspection...
...spokesman for Marine Gen. Michael Lehnert said the General plans to train his soldiers in the "finer points of the Muslim religion" to avoid another confrontation. Gen. Lenhert had also addressed what he believes is the underlying source of prisoners' agitation - what's going to happen to them and when - by telling the prisoners over loudspeakers that they "would be judged fairly, at some time in the future." Lehnert will now speak to the detainees weekly to inform them what, if anything, he knows of their status...
...Noted "They get a jump- suit. They don't get to pick the color." BRIGADIER GENERAL MIKE LEHNERT, Guantanamo security chief, responding to criticism of harsh U.S. treatment of al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners...