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Agence France-PresseUS lawmaker threatens funds in China Guantanamo row
By Shaun Tandon (AFP) – 12 hours ago
WASHINGTON — A US lawmaker angrily threatened to cut funds to the Pentagon over accounts that it helped China harshly interrogate prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
Chinese agents in 2002 traveled to the controversial US detention camp in Cuba and grilled 22 Muslims from the Uighur minority, whom the United States later cleared of wrongdoing.
Three of the men who have since been freed told the US Congress that US soldiers pinned them down, deprived them of sleep and exposed them to extreme cold to soften them up for the Chinese interrogators.
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Representative Jim Moran, who sits on the appropriations subcommittee that sets the defense budget, threatened to cut funding for the office, set up in 2004 under then president George W. Bush, until he received answers.
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