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Pakistanis in Guantanamo

The Guantánamo Files: Additional Chapters Online - From Sheberghan to Kandahar

7.11.08

I’ve just posted the seventh of 12 additional online chapters supplementing my book The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (published by Pluto Press/the University of Michigan Press, and available from Amazon here). This additional chapter complements Chapter 9 of The Guantánamo Files, looking at the stories of 21 [...]

Rendered to Egypt for torture, Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni is released from Guantánamo

4.9.08

News that three more prisoners have been released from Guantánamo is cause for celebration, as all three men should never have been held in the first place. In a report to follow, I’ll look at the stories of the two Afghans released — one a simple farmer, the other a juvenile at the time he [...]

Report on ex-Guantánamo prisoners reveals systematic abuse and chronic failures of intelligence

18.6.08

On Sunday, just two days after the Supreme Court’s momentous ruling that the prisoners at Guantánamo have constitutional habeas corpus rights — and as John McCain started a right-wing backlash by declaring, with Cheney-like hyperbole, that it was “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country” — McClatchy Newspapers, whose 31 titles [...]

If the US administration had behaved intelligently, ex-Guantánamo inmate who blew himself up would never have been released

24.7.07

The news that Abdullah Mehsud, a 32-year old Taliban commander released from Guantánamo in March 2004, has killed himself with a hand grenade after being cornered by security forces in Pakistan, has unleashed a wave of belligerent bombast from right-wing commentators. Leaving aside the fact that he was reportedly killed in March 2005, bloggers such [...]

Guantánamo’s tangled web: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Majid Khan, dubious US convictions, and a dying man

14.7.07

In March, when Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the most high-profile al-Qaeda terror suspect in US custody, “confessed” during his tribunal in Guantánamo that he was the architect of 9/11 and had also played a part in 30 other plots (both real and conceptual), there were mixed responses. No one tried to deny Mohammed’s main claim [...]

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