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| | Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Weekend feature: American homeland security |
 | | One of its innovations was to revive a law that had been dormant since 1952, requiring journalists to apply for a special visa, known as I-visa, when visiting the US for professional reasons. |
 | | Thirteen foreign journalists were detained and deported from the US last year, 12 of them from LAX. |
 | | Though my experience was far removed from the images of real torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, it was also, as one American friend put it, "conceptually related", at distant ends of the same continuum and dictated by a disregard for the humanity of those deemed "in the wrong". |
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