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Raed, who had already checked Baghdad's morgues, drove the next day to a U.S. military base to ask if his brother was being held there. An Iraqi translator suggested he try the detention center at Baghdad international airport, where a soldier told Raed to return the next day to another entrance. There, hundreds of Iraqis stood for hours in 120º heat, searching for relatives. Finally, an American woman tapped Mohammed's name into a laptop computer but came up with nothing. She told Raed to try the Republican Palace; there a U.S. soldier turned him back. Overhearing his plight...
...course, how to get out of the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is as great a mystery as the place itself. Escape is a long shot. The base is a prison, and a jewelry box. "You can't be too careful protecting this enormously valuable intelligence trove," says Army General Geoffrey Miller, commander of the joint task force that runs the detainee operation on the 45-sq.-mi. base. And so there are constant perimeter patrols by infantry squads in full battle gear, and visitors get turned inside out before they're allowed anywhere near the cellblocks...
...tried to slit his throat with a knife he had made from metal. "Whenever we saw someone trying to kill themselves," says Ghazi Salahuddin, a detainee from Pakistan released in July, "we would all shout, attracting the attention of the guards." The new mental-health clinic on the base is usually close to full...
...jihadists penetrate the Guantanamo prison facilities that the U.S. military uses to house suspected terrorists? It seemed to be a possibility when U.S. officials leveled charges this fall against a Muslim Army chaplain and two base interpreters. But the notion that U.S. personnel were working for the enemy took a knock last week when the cleric, Captain James Yee, was freed from pretrial detention in a naval brig to work in the chaplain's office at Fort Benning, Ga. Yee still faces charges that he improperly took classified material from the prison, but suspicions that he might...
...special task force formed by the military and FBI to pursue the investigations is exploring theories that the base was penetrated by al-Qaeda or a state intelligence service. But law-enforcement officials tell TIME that the force is leaning toward the conclusion that the two linguists acted on their own and independently of each other...