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Vol. IV, No. 49 January
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US knew about tsunami
The Tsunami
Disaster: US Issued Killer Wave Warning to Terror Ships
By Charles
Lavery
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PRISON ships holding Osama bin Laden's most trusted lieutenants were given
an hour's warning of the tsunami.
The terrorists were aboard the vessels, anchored off British-owned island
Diego Garcia, 1000 miles south of India.
Staff were alerted to the tsunami and had around an hour to batten down
the hatches aboard the eight ships, whose detainees include bin Laden
henchmen Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Ramzi Binasshibh and Abu Zubaida.
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Zulfahmi, 10, is comforted by his
grandmother (right photo) in a Banda Aceh hospital as they are
reunited for the first time Jan. 7, 12 days after the tsunami which
killed more than 101,000 people in northern Indonesia. |
It's not known if the boats rode out the killer waves.
Diego Garcia is a key 15-mile stretch of land leased to the US military.
They used it for bombing runs on Iraq and Afghanistan.
They currently use it as a holding and interrogation centre for suspected
terrorists. Interrogators are not subject to US government rules on
interviewing suspects.
Officials at the US Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii alerted the
base but failed to warn the affected nations, which had no warning system
in place.
The US government said the base had not been damaged.
Human rights organisations fear physical abuse similar to that meted out
in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison is being allowed on Diego Garcia.
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