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Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Lawrence Di Rita comments on the hunger strike by some of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay during a Pentagon press briefing on Oct. 6, 2005.

Lawrence Di Rita comments on the hunger strike by some of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Lawrence Di Rita comments on the hunger strike by some of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay during a Pentagon press briefing on Oct. 6, 2005.

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