Research Catalog

Title

The Guantánamo files : the stories of the 774 detainees in America's illegal prison / Andy Worthington.

Author

Worthington, Andy.

Publication

London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2007.

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Description

xiv, 338 p. : map; 23 cm.

Summary

In early 2006 the Pentagon released 7000 pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing the status of the 759 men illegally detained in Guantanamo Bay. Journalist Andy Worthington has analysed every page of these transcripts, and in this text weaves together the story of the prison and its inmates.

Subject

• Detention of persons > Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
• Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp
• Political prisoners > Government policy > Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
• Prisoners of war > Legal status, laws, etc. > Guantánamo Bay Naval Base

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-324) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

"Operation enduring freedom" -- The Qala-i-Janghi massacre -- The convoy of death -- Tora Bora -- Escape to Pakistan: "Osama's bodyguards" -- Escape to Pakistan: Saudis and Yemenis -- Escape to Pakistan: the diaspora -- Kandahar -- 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 -- "Extraordinary rendition," "Ghost" prisoners and secret prisons -- Losing the war in Afghanistan -- Challenging the law -- Suicides and hunger strikes -- Endgame?

ISBN

• 9780745326658 (hbk.)
• 074532665X (hbk.)
• 0745326641 (pbk.)
• 9780745326641 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007300318

OCLC

145388596

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library