Opposing Digits

Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, has dismissed claims of torture by Guantanamo Bay terrorist suspects, describing them as a calculated attempt to manipulate the western media.

Mr Rumsfeld spoke just before the BBC broadcast claims by a suspect who said that he had been tortured by guards who force-fed him to end a hunger strike.

A second hunger striker has taken his case to the American courts, asking a judge to block the force-feeding regime which had caused him "unbearable pain".

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