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Guantánamo Diary Hardcover – January 20, 2015

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  • Hardcover: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (January 20, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0316328685
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316328685
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.6 x 9.6 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe human face of Guantanamo and American torture
By C. Olson on January 22, 2015
Format: Hardcover
This book is an incredible, first-person story about imprisonment, torture, and life in the secret world of Guantanamo. It is complete with government redaction bars as well as footnotes tying the narrative to declassified documents. Especially interesting are the human relationships formed with guards and interrogators throughout Slahi’s ordeal. Sadly, this tale illustrates the plight of many other Gitmo prisoners.

A little of Slahi’s story: he’s from Mauritania and when he was 18 went to college in Germany on a scholarship. In the early 1990s, he interrupted his studies to fight with al-Qaeda units against the communist government in Afghanistan (the U.S. supported anti-communist forces). He returned to Germany a few years later and got his degree. In November 2001 he went to his local police station in Mauritania to answer questions about suspected involvement in a terrorist plot – he’s been a prisoner ever since but never charged with a crime. He was rendered by the CIA to Jordan and Afghanistan for more interrogation before being sent to Guantanamo in 2002.

Slahi was one of two so-called “Special Projects” whose treatment Donald Rumsfeld personally approved – treatment that included extreme isolation, sleep deprivation, sexual molestation, frigid rooms, stress positions, and death threats against both Slahi and his mother. Military prosecutors have said that they declined to prosecute him because he was tortured or because they could simply not find anything to charge him with.

In 2010, a federal district court judge ordered him released, but the Obama administration successfully appealed and the case was sent back to the district court with instructions to use looser standards to decide whether someone can be held. And so Slahi remains locked up indefinitely, 13 years and counting -- for doing NOTHING.

If you want to try to do something about it, there's a petition to send him home at https://www.aclu.org/free-slahi
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn Unlikely Review, A Story Worth Reading
By K. Groh TOP 100 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on January 24, 2015
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I am probably the least likely person to write a review for this book. But after listening to the editor/author, Larry Siems, on NPR, I knew I had to read it. I am not a highly political person. I am not great with history. I don't understand all the nuances of the military. I also understand that there are people, foreigners, who would love nothing better than to blow up our country and wouldn't feel any remorse. However, the story of Mohamedou is so outlandish that it is hard to believe that we, as Americans, would be okay with this kind of treatment. Let's just say that one of our citizens was held captive (and I'm not naive enough to think that it doesn't still happen) under these conditions in another country for 13+ years, we would be up in arms. The injustice of it all would be all over the news. We are a better country than that. We are morally sensitive on so many issues that it is hard to believe we stoop so low in this regard. So why are we allowed to treat a prisoner this way? Primarily, I am so upset that he has never been charged. That there has been no obvious evidence all this time that actually links him to a terrorist activity. He was pulled from his family and has been brutally and unjustly treated for years.

Again, I am not so naive that I don't think torture is going on for the sake of garnering information to protect our citizens. Some is expected and we tend to look the other way, the same way that we don't want to know about how our animals are slaughtered for consumption. I don't necessarily agree with it and it goes against the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of war. As quoted in the introduction, "Prisoners must at all times be humanly treated.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsPrisoner #760
By Sarah S. Forth on January 28, 2015
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Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been prisoner #760 at Guantánamo Bay military prison since 2002.

In 2001, at the behest of U.S. authorities, he was arrested --or kidnapped, depending on how you see it--in his native Mauritania, on the West coast of Africa, and secretly taken to a "black site" in Jordon where he was interrogated for eight months, then flown to Cuba.

At Guantanamo, military intelligence officers and guards subjected him to "special treatment," a protocol personally approved by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. This included 24-hour-a-day interrogation, beatings, sexual abuse, extended periods of sleep deprivation and enforced stress positions, withholding of food and medical care, and isolation so complete he did not know if it were day or night. His guards wore masks and the International Red Cross was prevented from meeting with him.

Slahi's transgression?

None.

U.S. authorities were unable to find any crime with which they could charge him. In 2010, a federal judge ordered Slahi released.

Our government appealed this decision and Slahi remains, to this day, incarcerated at Gitmo.

You are excused for imagining Slahi's memoir would be filled with bitterness and invective. It is not.

In remarkably readable colloquial English--Slahi's fourth language, which he taught himself in prison--this young, pious Muslim details his treatment with poignancy and dark humor.

If anything, he under-reports the brutality, providing a just-the-facts description. Even so, readers will get a good sense of the day-to-day brutality, the nitty-gritty that news reporting cannot convey.

Where guards are kind, he says so. And where the U.S.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsGripping

Hard to be proud to be an American after reading this book; very enlightening on how far we have strayed from our values in the name of safety and security.

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4.0 out of 5 starsWow! A Must Read for Anyone Wanting to Know More about Guantanamo

A mesmerizing yet disturbing book which illuminates the power of the human spirit in the face of unbelievable and undeserved torture and confinement. Read more

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4.0 out of 5 starsA Guantanamo must-read

Very fine book. Sorry it is no longer available.

Published 4 months ago by Edith D. Tipple
5.0 out of 5 starsRead it. Devastating

The humanity and basic reasonableness of a nerd caught in Kafka-esqe American stupidity and brutality

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5.0 out of 5 starsAn eye-opening read.

Wonderfully interesting. Eye-opening. One can't help but admire this writer very much. So seeing him in his continued incarceration seems a maddeningly frustrating situation.

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