The Guantánamo files: the documents

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Guantánamo files: How interrogators were told to spot al-Qaida and Taliban members

Today's leak includes a confidential document given to interrogators at Guantánamo Bay outlining how to spot al-Qaida and Taliban operatives: watches, 'pocket litter' and common cover stories are all listed as telltale signs
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"The sign of al-Qaida"

James Ball

"It is cheap, basic and widely available around the world. Yet the Casio F-91W digital watch was declared to be "the sign of al-Qaida" and a contributing factor to continued detention of prisoners by the analysts stationed at Guantánamo Bay"

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