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Morocco's Secret Prisons
The LRB Podcast
Was It Saddam Hussein's New World Order?
Hassan saw this coming on the eve of a state visit he was about to make to Washington and he released everybody in Tazmamout. Hassan's people, his advisors were very shocked by that. They regarded that as a betrayal on Bush's part. But it did close in the end before they all died in 1991 after 18 years. It had a lot to do with the end of the Cold War and the fact that the State Department was now able to turn its attention to its cold war allies who were committing abuses for Western freedoms.
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