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WWII tale applied to Guantanamo case

Detainees' lawyer cites Boston story

By Charlie Savage
Globe Staff / August 12, 2005

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WASHINGTON -- In 1944, months after Italy had surrendered to the Allies, life improved for Italian prisoners of war detained at Camp McKay in South Boston. They could not go home because World War II still raged, but the United States stopped treating them as POWs. (Full article: 816 words)

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