Enemy Combatant

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Enemy Combatant

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Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has become a worldwide symbol of the dark side of America’s War on Terror. Here, for the first time, is a powerful and moving story from the other side, the first detainee’s account of life inside the notorious prison. A highly educated British Muslim, Moazzam Begg spent three years in U.S. custody, nearly two of them in Guantánamo, before being released without charge in January of 2005. `Enemy Combatant’, written with respected UK journalist Victoria Brittain, is the wrenching narrative of Begg’s detention, including his eighteen months in solitary confinement. Secretly abducted at midnight from his home in Afghanistan, held incommunicado in Kandahar and Bagram Air Force base, Begg was eventually flown to Guantánamo, where, like more than 800 Muslim men and boys—550 of whom remain in custody—he was held in shackles and the now-trademark orange prison uniform, subjected to relentless interrogations and abusive and degrading conditions. A riveting, personal story by a thoughtful and eloquent man, `Enemy Combatant’ is a uniquely personal indictment of America’s establishment of a global gulag that flouts the Geneva conventions—one of the great miscarriages of justice in our time.

SKU: 21780 Category: Tags: ,
Subtitle: My Imprisonment At Guantanamo, Bagram, And Kandahar
Author: Begg, Moazzam
Year: 2006
ISBN: 9781595581365
Pages: 352
Language: English
Publisher: New Press
Publisher's city: New York
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