Brooklyn's Abu Ghraib: Detainees in Post 9/11 Sweep Allege Abuse in NY

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Some of the Middle Eastern immigrants arrested in the days after 9/11 have alleged abuse at the hands of guards at a detention center in New York City. In a class action lawsuit, they detail these allegations, including humiliation, sleep deprivation, physical and sexual abuse. We speak with the New York Daily News reporter who broke the story, the attorney in the suit and we go to Egypt to speak with one of the plaintiffs.

We return now to our in-depth coverage of the treatment of people arrested, detained or imprisoned as part of the so-called war on terror. Today's story takes us not to Guantanamo Bay or to Abu Ghraib or to the Bagram Air Base. It happened right here in New York at a facility some human rights lawyers are calling "Brooklyn's Abu Ghraib."

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1. america, the country that tortures

and invades