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DESCRIPTION:On 11 January 2002, exactly four months after the terrible events of 9/11, 
 the first of 774 prisoners arrived at a specially constructed prison on a 
 US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Until recently, it was impossible 
 to tell the stories of these men. Held without charge, without trial, 
 without access to their families, and, initially, without access to 
 lawyers, they are part of a peculiarly lawless experiment conducted by the 
 US administration, which has chosen to disregard both the Geneva 
 Conventions and the established rules of war, holding the men not as 
 criminals or as Prisoners of War, but as “illegal enemy combatants,” a 
 category of prisoner which is itself illegal.\n\nBeginning with the US-led 
 invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, The Guantánamo Files explains, in 
 detail, the genesis of the prison, its counterparts in Afghanistan, its 
 development from 2002 to the present day, its role as a prison devoted to 
 interrogation and torture, the legal challenges that have been launched 
 against the administration, and the network of secret prisons that 
 underpins Guantánamo’s brutal illegality. More importantly, The 
 Guantánamo Files allows the prisoners to tell their own stories, 
 explaining who they are and the circumstances of their capture. In contrast 
 to the administration’s claims that they are the “worst of the 
 worst,” what the stories reveal most of all is that very few of them had 
 anything to do with al-Qaeda, and the vast majority were either Taliban 
 foot soldiers, recruited to fight an inter-Muslim civil war in Afghanistan 
 that began long before 9/11, or humanitarian aid workers, religious 
 teachers and economic migrants, who were, for the most part, sold to the 
 Americans by their allies in Afghanistan and Pakistan.\n\nBringing these 
 stories to life for the first time, The Guantánamo Files vividly 
 demonstrates the human cost of the administration’s ill-conceived and 
 violently executed “War on Terror.”\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/09/18628214.php
SUMMARY:Discussion & book signing by UK author, Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files
LOCATION:Revolution Books \n2425 Channing Way (in the Sather Gate Parking Mall off 
 of Telegraph Avenue)\nWheelchair accessible, donations accepted.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/09/18628214.php
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