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US ‘grilled detainees at UAE torture sites’
But Pentagon denies involvement in abuse at secret jails

THE Pentagon has admitted interrogating detainees at a string of black site prisons in Yemen’s occupied south but denied involvement in torture.

The Associated Press revealed that US military personnel are in Yemen interrogating suspected al-Qaida members in an investigative report published yesterday.

Families and lawyers say nearly 2,000 men have been rounded up and held in the 18 secret jails run by United Arab Emirates (UAE) forces — part of the Saudi-led invasion coalition — and its local proxies. There are regular protests for their release.

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