Makes me ashamed to be an American and afraid of the consequences we're all going to have to live with for generations.
In, four years after the illegal prison in Guantánamo Bay first opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of themen held there, as well as,pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing their status as 'enemy combatants'.
Andy Worthington is the only person to have analysed every page of these transcripts, Drawing on these documents, as well as news reports and interviews with lawyers and released detainees, this book reveals, for the first time, the stories of all those imprisoned in Guantánamo.
I have purchased this book in an event organised by cageprisoners and Andy was there he even was kind to sign my book.
The book provides detailed count of the suffering of the detainees in America's illegal Prison, Andy is great expert in this field and took a greater depth and effort to illustrate to us at least if not all the facts most of the facts.
Wow. An inside look at this prison and the stories of the men inside, The writing gets a bit tedious with one sad story after another, and the writing is a string of anecdotes.
This definitely gave a different perspective to the War on Terror and how far the US is willing to go against their founding principles in the name of safety and security.
A complete and full story about the torture prison that Guantanamo, Very well researched and refuting the view that these detainees were the worst of the worst, A must read Andy Worthington is a freelance historian, He is the author of two books on modern British social history, and his work has also appeared in the Guardian and the Idler.
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