{"id":25298,"date":"2012-01-11T22:32:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T05:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/a-decade-of-guantanamo-detention.html"},"modified":"2012-01-12T18:08:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T01:08:45","slug":"a-decade-of-guantanamo-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/a-decade-of-guantanamo-detention.html","title":{"rendered":"A decade of Guantanamo detention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shameful. #ddtb<\/p>\n

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BY THE NUMBERS: 10 years at Guant\u00e1namo Bay<\/b><\/p>\n

-92 percent of prisoners were never al Qaeda fighters according to the U.S. government
-13 years old, the age of the youngest detainee
-$800,000 per year to house each detainee<\/p>\n

More facts at ThinkProgress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Shameful. #ddtb Reshared post from +Think Progress BY THE NUMBERS: 10 years at Guant\u00e1namo Bay -92 percent of prisoners were never al Qaeda fighters according to the U.S. government-13 years old, the age of the youngest detainee-$800,000 per year to house each detainee More facts at ThinkProgress. 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