@Bismarck Congratulation bro. For the first time I read that :
"German officer strongly refused: “He has committed no crime; here, he is a free man.”
NEW HOT SELLING BOOK and FILM in EUROPE
The Story of a Young man who never had culture from parents, bad friends, grew up in crime, never was intergrated , was mariied against his will, searched the sense of life.......very interesting.
He is in freedom and wrote a book and made film.
I don't know if he was a criminal- decide your own and try to analyze why Muslims are going unfortunately more and more VIOLENT
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/notes-from-a-guantanamo-survivor.html?_r=0
SundayReview | Opinion
Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor
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Guantánamo Bay much as I had arrived almost five years earlier — shackled hand-to-waist, waist-to-ankles, and ankles to a bolt on the airplane floor. My ears and eyes were goggled, my head hooded, and even though I was the only detainee on the flight this time, I was drugged and guarded by at least 10 soldiers. This time though, my jumpsuit was American denim rather than Guantánamo orange. I later learned that my C-17 military flight from Guantánamo to Ramstein Air Base in my home country, Germany, cost more than $1 million.
When we landed, the American officers unshackled me before they handed me over to a delegation of German officials. The American officer offered to re-shackle my wrists with a fresh, plastic pair.
But the commanding German officer strongly refused: “He has committed no crime; here, he is a free man.”
I was not a strong secondary school student in Bremen, but I remember learning that after
World War II, the Americans insisted on a trial for war criminals at Nuremberg, and that event helped turn Germany into a democratic country. Strange, I thought, as I stood on the tarmac watching the Germans teach the Americans a basic lesson about the rule of law.
How did I arrive at this point? This Wednesday is the 10th anniversary of the opening of the detention camp at the American naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. I am not a terrorist. I have never been a member of
Al Qaeda or supported them. I don’t even understand their ideas. I am the son of Turkish immigrants who came to Germany in search of work. My father has worked for years in a Mercedes factory. In 2001, when I was 18, I married a devout Turkish woman and wanted to learn more about Islam and to lead a better life. I did not have much money. Some of the elders in my town suggested I travel to Pakistan to learn to study the Koran with a religious group there.
I made my plans just before 9/11. I was 19 then and was naïve and did not think war in Afghanistan would have anything to do with Pakistan or my trip there. So I went ahead with my trip.
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„5 Jahre Leben“, basierend auf der wahren Geschichte des Deutsch-Türken Murat Kurnaz, der insgesamt fünf Jahre als Gefangener der USA in Afghanistan und Guantánamo inhaftiert war, ist nicht nur die Chronik eines unglaublichen Missbrauchs, sondern zeigt auch den Überlebenswillen eines Mannes, dem man alles genommen hat. Zugleich schildert der Film das Duell zweier außergewöhnlich starker Persönlichkeiten. Auf der einen Seite: Murat Kurnaz, der seinem Leben einen neuen Sinn geben wollte, als er sich dem Islam zuwandte und nach dem 11. September nach Pakistan aufbrach, um eine Koranschule zu besuchen. Auf der anderen Seite: Gail Holford, Verhörspezialist der US-Regierung, der alle Tricks von Manipulation bis Einschüchterung beherrscht und dessen Hauptziel es ist, Kurnaz ein Geständnis zu entlocken. Aber Kurnaz hat nichts zu gestehen. Er ist unschuldig. So verstreichen Monate – Monate voller psychischer und physischer Folter – bis Kurnaz begreift, dass seine Weigerung, ein Geständnis zu unterzeichnen, das Einzige ist, was ihm bleibt.
Murat Kurnaz' Geschichte wirft nicht nur große Zweifel auf an der Rechtsstaatlichkeit unserer westlichen Welt, der Film konfrontiert den Zuschauer auf eindringliche Art und Weise mit der eigenen Wahrnehmung und Bewertung. Regisseur Stefan Schaller ist mit „5 Jahre Leben“ ein packendes, beeindruckendes Porträt eines damals gerade 19-Jährigen gelungen, der es durch seine Willensstärke schaffte, dem ungeheuren Verhördruck in Guantánamo standzuhalten. 1.725 Tage inhaftiert, über ein Jahr davon in völliger Isolation.
