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Brit freed from Guantanamo cashes in on Xbox
thesun.co.uk ^ | May 31, 2009 | ANDREW PARKER
Posted on May 31, 2009 9:18:18 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A BRIT who spent two years in Guantanamo Bay as a terror suspect is cashing in with a computer game based on the US detention camp.
Moazzam Begg, 41, will appear as himself in the Xbox 360 game, which could rake in £3million.
Rendition: Guantanamo, due to go on sale in October, lets players control a detainee trying to shoot his way out.
Begg, of Sparkhill, Birmingham, is shown in the game as head of an organisation helping the suspect to escape.
Human rights activist Begg was thrown into the camp on Cuba in 2003 after the CIA held him in Pakistan. He claims he was tortured before being freed without charge in 2005.
Begg said any money he is paid will go to a charity fighting for detainees’ rights.
He said: “The software firm approached me with the idea for a Guantanamo game. I’m involved to make sure it is as true to life as possible.”
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GUANTANAMO BAY PRISON CAMPS
“Some Guantánamo detainees to get laptops”
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
SNIPPET: “GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — These captives already get to order fast-food takeout from the base and have access to a phone booth for weekly calls. Now some 17 Uighur Muslims awaiting a nation to grant them asylum are about to go high-tech, with laptops and web training.”
SNIPPET: “Attorney General Eric Holder said some could come to the United States for resettlement, triggering protests from members of Congress around Virginia, where other Uighurs live and have offered to settle them.
Nury Turkel, a Washington, D.C.-based Uighur rights activist, hailed the computer training development. Internet access could allow the men to listen to Uighur broadcasts of Radio Free Asia, he said.”