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Sunday, January 27, 2002

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- The Taliban fighters who wouldn't allow women to study in Afghanistan and punished them if a veil slipped or ankle showed now are getting orders from women guards and care from female doctors at this U.S. detention camp.

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