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September 25, 2004
Gitmo
Image source: http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2004/01/12_400.html
In openDemocracy this week, David Rose, has written a short piece about his book, Guantánamo, to be published next month by Faber. The article includes some interesting hyperlinks that are well worth a visit, especially the Gitmo link that goes to a MotherJones.com article describing some of the goings-on at Guantánamo. Even senior Pentagon officials have expressed concern about the continued detention of many of the interns who include, among others, three young teenage boys, deaf and elderly men, and many who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sadly, as Rose observes, 'if Guantánamo has provided but a few meagre scraps of information, it has also become an icon of oppression throughout the developing – and especially the Muslim – world'. The case that Guantánamo is 'legally and morally questionable is overwhelming', he argues, and even viewed in terms of its own stated mission – to stop further terrorist attacks – it has proved ineffective.
Posted by jeremy at September 25, 2004 11:23 AM
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