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The Guantanamo Files
In 2006, four years after the illegal prison in Guantánamo Bay first
opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of the 773 men held
there, as well as 7,000 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. This book does not make for easy
reading. Deprived of the safeguards of the Geneva Conventions, and, for
the most part, sold to the Americans by their allies in Afghanistan and
Pakistan, the detainees have struggled for five years to have their
stories heard. Looking in detail at the circumstances of their capture,
and at the coercive interrogations and unsubstantiated allegations that
have been used to justify their detention, 'The Guantánamo Files'
reveals that the majority of those captured were either Taliban foot
soldiers or humanitarian aid workers, religious teachers and economic
migrants, who were caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. The book
also uncovers stories of torture in Afghanistan and Guantánamo, and
contains new information about the process of 'extraordinary rendition'
that underpins the US administration's 'war on terror'. Who will speak
for the 773 men who have been held in Guantánamo? This passionate and
brilliantly detailed book brings their stories to the world for the
first time.
In 2006, four years after the illegal prison in Guantánamo Bay first
opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of the 773 men held
there, as well as 7,000 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. This book does not make for easy
reading. Deprived of the safeguards of the Geneva Conventions, and, for
the most part, sold to the Americans by their allies in Afghanistan and
Pakistan, the detainees have struggled for five years to have their
stories heard. Looking in detail at the circumstances of their capture,
and at the coercive interrogations and unsubstantiated allegations that
have been used to justify their detention, 'The Guantánamo Files'
reveals that the majority of those captured were either Taliban foot
soldiers or humanitarian aid workers, religious teachers and economic
migrants, who were caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. The book
also uncovers stories of torture in Afghanistan and Guantánamo, and
contains new information about the process of 'extraordinary rendition'
that underpins the US administration's 'war on terror'. Who will speak
for the 773 men who have been held in Guantánamo? This passionate and
brilliantly detailed book brings their stories to the world for the
first time.
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