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Back in September 2005, when I first began researching Guantánamo for my book The Guantánamo Files, the prison was still shrouded in mystery, even though attorneys had been visiting prisoners for nearly a year, following the Supreme Courts ruling, in June 2004, that they had habeas corpus rights. Researchers at the Washington Post and at Cageprisoners, a human rights organization in the UK, had compiled tentative lists of who was being held, but, although these efforts were commendable, much of it was little more than groping in the dark a broken jigsaw puzzle based on media reports and interviews with released prisoners because the Bush administration refused to provide details of the names and nationalities of those it was holding.
Read the rest at:
Wars of the World: Bagram Isn’t The New Guantánamo, It’s The Old Guantánamo
Read the rest at:
Wars of the World: Bagram Isn’t The New Guantánamo, It’s The Old Guantánamo