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Seven Years of Guantánamo, Seven Years of Torture and Lies
11.1.09
Seven years ago, on January 11, 2002, when photos of the first orange-clad detainees to arrive at a hastily-erected prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba were made available to the world’s press, defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld reacted to the widespread uproar that greeted the images of the kneeling, shackled men, wearing masks and blacked-out goggles and [...]
* American torture, Closing Guantanamo, Guantanamo op-eds, Hunger strikes in Guantanamo
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In the Guardian: When Will Guantánamo Close?
11.1.09
For the Guardian’s Comment is free, “Will Guantánamo Bay ever close?” is one of several articles that I’ve written marking the seventh anniversary of the opening of the Bush administration’s “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where the remaining 248 prisoners — out of 779 prisoners in total — are still held neither [...]
* Closing Guantanamo, Guantanamo op-eds
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Seven Years Of Guantánamo, And A Call For Justice At Bagram
10.1.09
On Sunday 11 January, just nine days before the administration of George W. Bush hands over the reins of power to Barack Obama, the “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo — perhaps the most bleakly iconic symbol of the outgoing administration’s hubris — marks its seventh anniversary.
A lawless experiment
The facts about the prison make for [...]
