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By Christine Kearney, Reuters<\/p>\n

<\/a>A Pakistani man who says he was abused in detention after the September 11 attacks can name the FBI<\/font><\/span> director and former U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft in his lawsuit against the government, an appeals court ruled on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Javaid Iqbal, a Muslim, was held for more than a year at a Brooklyn detention center after the September 11 attacks. He, along with hundreds of Muslims and Arabs sued the U.S. government, claiming they were abused and held for no legitimate reason.<\/p>\n

Iqbal says he was subjected to repeated strip searches, beaten, dragged across the floor and that the lights in his cell were kept on 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n

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