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I met Muslim immigrants in Brooklyn who were swept up in 9-11 raids, held in abusive conditions, beaten, denied rights. That's how things started in Germany. Guantanamo was modeled after what Stalin developed for the Gulag.

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Naomi Wolf
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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Naomi R. Wolf
Naomi Rebekah Wolf
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