The Guantanamo Files - interviews

The following interview, with the London Bangla free newspaper, was conducted by email and published in two parts, in the most recent issues of the newspaper, which has a print run of 30,000 copies. I’d like to thank Emdad Rahman for coming up with a great set of questions that allowed me to cover all [...]

The following interview, with Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files, was conducted by email by Elizabeth Ferrari, and was originally published on Democratic Underground.
Elizabeth Ferrari: Andy, last week was a terrible week for lies and misinformation regarding Guantánamo, particularly concerning the Yemeni prisoners and a Pentagon statement alleging that 1 in 5 released prisoners [...]

Recently, Amelia King, an independent journalist and community activist based in Brighton, asked me for an interview by phone. Amelia recently created her own website and is beginning to publish online as a way of exploring her interest in human rights issues and sharing ideas through interviews and research, and the following interview was originally [...]

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson served in the US military for 31 years and was Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from August 2002 until January 2005, two months after Powell’s resignation, when he left the State Department. He is now the chairman of the New America Foundation’s US-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative.
In the [...]

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson served in the US military for 31 years and was Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from August 2002 until January 2005, two months after Powell’s resignation, when he left the State Department. He is now the chairman of the New America Foundation’s US-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative. In [...]

On Sunday, I was delighted to take part in a conference call arranged by World Can’t Wait, consisting of an interview with Frank Harper, followed by a question and answer session with those listening in. This was a novel set-up for me, but I thought it worked well, and I’m delighted that it’s now available [...]

Last week, I conducted an interview by email with Carlos Sardiňa Galache, a Spanish journalist, for a journalists’ organization in Spain dedicated to the pursuit of human rights, P+DH (periodismo + derechos humanos), which was published in two parts on Monday and today. The original version in English is published below.
Carlos Sardiňa Galache: Now that [...]

Andy Worthington, a London-based journalist, is the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, and has written over 300 articles about Guantánamo in the last two years, for publications including the New York Times, the Guardian, the Huffington Post, Antiwar.com and AlterNet, the Raw Story and the [...]

I don’t often cross-post articles from other sites, but my good friend the Talking Dog has just posted an interview with Darrel Vandeveld, the former prosecutor in Guantánamo’s Military Commissions, whose resignation in September, and declaration, last month, in the habeas corpus case of the Afghan prisoner Mohamed Jawad demonstrated, with a marvelous clarity, how [...]

Iranian journalist Kourosh Ziabari recently interviewed me by email about my book The Guantánamo Files, and my opinions about the Obama administration’s approach to foreign policy and the “War on Terror.” The interview was published on the website Foreign Policy Journal (as “Aberrations of Bush undermined every branch of US government: British Historian”).
Andy Worthington is [...]