Detainees held at Guantanamo Bay

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Tom Lasseter / MCT

Taj Mohammed, an Afghan detainee, said that the time he spent in Guantanamo studying the Quran and discussing Islam with radicals helped him see the world more clearly. "

There were detainees who did not pray or who spoke with female soldiers," Mohammed said. "We stopped speaking with these men. Sometimes we beat them."

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