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...able to detect signs of such programs, neither could the IAEA. And, he says, the experience taught him that "not seeing an indication of something does not automatically lead to the conclusion that there is nothing." That bit of linguistic tongue-twisting should please Washington; it's pure Rumsfeld...
...Close. He was actually in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a guest of the U.S. military. How did Khan, a homeopathic doctor whose family says he never picked up a gun, find himself 6,000 miles from home locked inside a razor-wired stockade? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has described Guantanamo's prisoners as "the hard-core, well-trained terrorists." But according to his family and friends, Khan was nothing more than a fool in love, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time...
...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...
...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 three or four Pakistanis. Back in the village of Kotka Miralam Daud Shah, 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...