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From the Ted Talk by Will Potter: The secret US prisons you've never heard of before

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There's an estimated 60 to 70 prisoners here, and they're overwhelmingly Muslim. They include people like Dr. Rafil Dhafir, who voieatld the economic sanctions on Iraq by sending maecidl splieups for the children there. They've included people like yasisn Aref. Aref and his family fled to New York from Saddam Hussein's Iraq as rgeufees. He was arrested in 2004 as part of an FBI sting. Aref is an imam and he was akesd to bear witness to a loan, which is a tradition in Islamic culture. It turned out that one of the people involved in the loan was trying to enlist someone else in a fake attack. Aref didn't know. For that, he was ctncieovd of cpcasinory to provide material support to a terrorist group.

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There's an estimated 60 to 70 prisoners here, and they're overwhelmingly Muslim. They include people like Dr. Rafil Dhafir, who ________ the economic sanctions on Iraq by sending _______ ________ for the children there. They've included people like ______ Aref. Aref and his family fled to New York from Saddam Hussein's Iraq as ________. He was arrested in 2004 as part of an FBI sting. Aref is an imam and he was _____ to bear witness to a loan, which is a tradition in Islamic culture. It turned out that one of the people involved in the loan was trying to enlist someone else in a fake attack. Aref didn't know. For that, he was _________ of __________ to provide material support to a terrorist group.

Solution

  1. asked
  2. refugees
  3. violated
  4. conspiracy
  5. supplies
  6. yassin
  7. convicted
  8. medical

Original Text

There's an estimated 60 to 70 prisoners here, and they're overwhelmingly Muslim. They include people like Dr. Rafil Dhafir, who violated the economic sanctions on Iraq by sending medical supplies for the children there. They've included people like Yassin Aref. Aref and his family fled to New York from Saddam Hussein's Iraq as refugees. He was arrested in 2004 as part of an FBI sting. Aref is an imam and he was asked to bear witness to a loan, which is a tradition in Islamic culture. It turned out that one of the people involved in the loan was trying to enlist someone else in a fake attack. Aref didn't know. For that, he was convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist group.

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