Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Sundance Film Festival

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Nasser Arrabyee, a good friend, is attending the Sundance Film Festival for the film “The Oath” about Yemen’s Guantanamo Bay detainees, as this post on his blog and this article on News Yemen indicate.

You can watch some background from Laura Poitras and find out more about the film here.

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