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Then, James Luria, who as a boy of 9 loaded his father’s shotgun and almost shot him.

Host Dick Gordon speaks with William Vizzard, who tracked down firearms for almost three decades, and Jay Wachtel, a veteran firearms trafficking investigator.

When Omar Deghayes was arrested in Pakistan a few months after 9/11, he had no idea he was beginning a nearly six-year imprisonment, most of it in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. As an educated English-speaking lawyer, Omar thought he just needed to explain that he was not a terrorist. Instead he experienced beatings, psychological and sexual abuse, threats of execution and was blinded in one eye. Like hundreds of others, Omar was ultimately released from the notorious detention camp. He was never charged with, or convicted of, anything. Omar is now part of a lawsuit being brought against the government in the U.K., for its complicity with the detentions in Guantanamo. Also, living in the play house.

Many people in Haiti are still without food, water, shelter and medical care as foreign aid makes its way in. In the meantime, many Haitians are doing what they can to help one another.