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Abbasi, Feroz Ali - short clip - BeyondtheVeil

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	(squeaking sound)	0:00
-	The positive thing that comes out of Guantanamo	0:02
	I guess is that, you know, you go through hardship	0:05
	and then you realize,	0:09
	for me it's been.	0:11
	Right now I look at the world in a different way.	0:15
	I really,	0:17
	it's like the veil has been lifted off the world.	0:18
	And what I see, you know,	0:21
	what the world is, it is about, it is pain.	0:25
	It is suffering.	0:28
	Guantanamo is the real face of	0:28
	of the world and life.	0:31
	That's how I see it.	0:32
	Coming back the veil has been, you know, placed back	0:35
	and I'm expected to like	0:39
	accept society as though, you know,	0:41
	things like Guantanamo Bay aren't happening	0:43
	or you know, even worse.	0:45
	But I can't do that because I've seen beyond the veil.	0:48

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Detainee Number US9UK-000024DP
Feroz Ali Abbasi, male, age 30, British, was detained in Guantanamo from January 10, 2002 until January 25, 2005, when he was returned to Britain.
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