It recalls the age old story of the willingness of both governments and ordinary people to inflict pain upon each other for financial and political gain while exercising a misguided sense of power over those peoples perceived as inferior to themselves. If you care about our Government's complicity in these illegal and horrific acts then this book provides the evidence. Carefully researched and documented, it reveals a story of appalling brutality.
The people are not mere ciphers but, as their stories unfold, their pain becomes our concern' -- Ken Loach. Andy Worthington is a freelance investigative journalist. He has been researching and writing about Guantanamo since , and has worked with the United Nations, WikiLeaks, Reprieve and Cageprisoners. He is the author of The Guantanamo Files Pluto, Introduction 1. The Qala-i-Janghi massacre 3. The convoy of death 4. Tora Bora 5. Escape to Pakistan: 'Osama's bodyguards' 6.
Escape to Pakistan: Saudis and Yemenis 7. Flight to Pakistan: the diaspora 8. Kandahar 9. From Sheberghan to Kandahar Others captured in Afghanistan Guantanamo opens House raids and other arrests in Pakistan The capture of Abu Zubaydah and its aftermath Bagram Torture, abuse and false confessions in Guantanamo Losing the war in Afghanistan Challenging the law Suicides, hunger strikes, medical malpractice and the abuse of the Koran Notes Index.
Du kanske gillar. Hypocrisy Vincent Cheng Inbunden. Spara som favorit. Skickas inom vardagar. In , four years after the illegal prison in Guantanamo Bay opened, the Pentagon finally released the names of the men held there, as well as 7, 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 and this book reveals the stories of all those imprisoned in Guantanamo. 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.
