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A series of secret, never-before-released photos of the original detainees at the US' prison at Guantanamo Bay detention camp have been published.

The photos, posted by the New York Times Sunday, show scenes of men in shackles, blindfolds and ear protectors as they arrived at the controversial prison facility in 2002.  
 
The Times points out that the only images ever leaked from the prison on the coast of Cuba were put out by WikiLeaks in 2011.  

Through a Freedom of Information Act request, we are now seeing some of the first photos of the first prisoners to arrive on site, just a few months after the attacks on September 11, 2001. 

The photos were taken to give Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other leaders in Washington a look at the start of the wartime detention and interrogation.