A Little Good News

It is long overdue, but...

The International Committee of the Red Cross was finally granted access this week to inmates at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Officials met with the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and 13 other suspected al Qaeda operative.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of planning 9/11 and former No. 3 leader of al Qaeda, Ramzi Binalshigh, were two of the detainees transferred recently to Gitmo from secret CIA prisons worldwide. Prisoners held secretly by the CIA were first acknowledged Sept. 6 by President George W. Bush.

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