"Abu Ghraib and its follow-on effects, including the continued drumbeat of 'torture' maintained by partisan critics of the war and the President, became a damaging distraction. More than anything else I have failed to do, ... I regret that I did not leave at that point."-excerpt from Known and Unknown, the memoir of former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, published Feb. 8. "A 48-year-old former Taliban commander dropped dead, apparently of a heart attack, after exercising on an elliptical machine in the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay."-from Los Angeles Times story about the demise of detainee Awal Gul, Feb. 4.
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