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Afghan Detainee's Confession Excluded on Torture Grounds at Guantánamo Trial

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -  In a first, a military judge ruled yesterday that a Guantánamo detainee's confession was extracted through torture, and excluded it from the trial of a young Afghan detainee at the war court.

Afghan police threatened the family of teenager Mohammed Jawad while he was undergoing interrogation at a Kabul police station, said army colonel Stephen Henley, the judge, in a three-page ruling.

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