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9/11 lawyer to challenge secret Guantanamo camp

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Last Updated : Aug 19 2013 | 4:20 AM IST
A lawyer for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner charged in the Sept 11 terror attacks plans to challenge conditions inside the top-secret prison-within-a-prison known as Camp 7.
James Connell says he was able to see the camp and meet there for the first time with his client, Ammar al-Baluchi.
Connell says that he can't yet reveal what he saw but that he does not believe conditions meet Geneva Conventions standards.
A judge granted Connell and two experts 12 hours to view the camp and meet with al-Baluchi. The lawyer had never before seen the inside of Camp 7, which is so shrouded in secrecy that its location on the US base in Cuba is classified.
A pretrial hearing for al-Baluchi and four others charged in the attacks starts today.

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First Published: Aug 19 2013 | 4:20 AM IST

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