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salt pit
[′sȯlt ‚pit] (geology)
A pit in which sea water is received and evaporated and from which salt is obtained.
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The Senate report said CIA cables and memos showed that agency headquarters officials were stunned in 2003 to learn that they had 44 previously unreported detainees in one prison -- also identified by the former officials as
the Salt Pit. All of the detainees had been held in solitary confinement for months and many had no known intelligence value.
Q: One of the awful stories concerning the CIA prisoner abuse was the death of Gul Rahman, the Afghan man who was frozen to death in his cell at
the Salt Pit on November 20, 2002.
One of the cases involved was the death of an Afghan, Gul Rahman, who was being held at a CIA facility known as
the Salt Pit in Afghanistan in 2002, when he was allegedly doused with water and left out in frigid overnight weather to die, while the second involved an Iraqi, Maadel al-Jamadi, who was apprehended by U.S.
On August 3 there will be a visit to Hilbre Island to understand how
the salt pit community lived.
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