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  2. Khalid El-Masri - Wikipedia

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    At the end of 2003, El-Masri travelled from his home in Ulm to go on a short vacation in Skopje.He was detained by Macedonian border officials on 31 December 2003, because his name was identical (except for variations in Roman transliteration) to that of Khalid al-Masri, who was being sought as an alleged mentor to the al-Qaeda Hamburg cell, and because of suspicion that El-Masri's German ...

  3. Ghost detainee - Wikipedia

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    But, on June 1, 2006, the BND (German intelligence agency) declared that it had known of El-Masri's seizure 16 months before Germany was officially informed of his arrest. [ 3 ] In a 2007 report, Human Rights Watch related the claims of an alleged ghost detainee, Marwan Jabour , a Palestinian who was arrested in Lahore, Pakistan , in May 2004 ...

  4. Tennessee (Arrested Development song) - Wikipedia

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    "Tennessee" is a song by American hip hop group Arrested Development, released in March 1992 by Chrysalis and Cooltempo as the first single from their debut album, 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of... (1992). The song was produced by group member Speech and contains a sample of Prince's 1988 hit "Alphabet St.".

  5. Rendition (film) - Wikipedia

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    Realising that her father, responsible for the death of Khalid's brother, is about to be assassinated by Khalid, she runs to the town square and confronts Khalid. He hesitates, and is killed by the attack’s organizers; he releases the dead man's switch , and Fatima is killed in the explosion at the beginning of the film.

  6. Songs that sound like home: From TV themes to murder ... - AOL

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    The song reached new heights in 1972 when University of Tennessee at Knoxville marching band, the Pride of the Southland, played it for the first time and set the stage for the 1967 country ...

  7. Khalid al-Masri - Wikipedia

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    An unrelated German citizen, Khalid El-Masri, spent almost five months in the covert CIA prison in Afghanistan called the Salt Pit in the early months of 2004, where he was interrogated and tortured. [4] Alfreda Frances Bikowsky ordered El-Masri to be extraordinarily rendered, even though she only had a hunch El-Masri was the same person as al ...

  8. Manfred Gnjidic - Wikipedia

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    Gnjidic helped El-Masri launch a lawsuit against George Tenet and other Americans he alleges were involved in his rendition. On December 8, 2005, following a meeting with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice , German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Dr Rice had privately acknowledged that El-Masri had been captured and ...

  9. Gitmo playlist - Wikipedia

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    Most interrogators chose to use heavy metal, country, and rap music, and the lyrics were often culturally offensive to detainees. [10]: 6 [5] Other music allegedly used included songs from AC/DC, Marilyn Manson, Rage Against the Machine, Britney Spears, the Bee Gees, Barney & Friends, and Sesame Street.