by ANDY WORTHINGTON
In an attempt to revive interest in Guantanamo, I’m publishing an eight-part series of articles (in conjunction with Cageprisoners), telling, for the first time, the stories of the remaining 176 prisoners in Guantanamo.
Part Two will be published on Friday, Parts Three and Four next week, and so on …
I hope it helps to explain how few of the remaining prisoners have any connection to terrorism, how some are civilians, and how others were foot soldiers for the Taliban, in an inter-Muslim civil war in Afghanistan that had nothing to do with 9/11, and very little to do with al-Qaeda. I also hope that it may contribute to the almost non-existent debate regarding the Authorization for Use of Military Force, and the administration’s misplaced use of it to hold foot soldiers in Guantanamo, as well as highlighting other aspects of the habeas litigation, the military commissions, the moratorium on releasing Yemenis, and the decision to hold 48 of the prisoners indefinitely without charge or trial.
Andy Worthington
Author & journalist
Email: andy@andyworthington.co.uk
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Andy is the author of “The Guantánamo Files: The Stories
of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison”
(published by Pluto Press and distributed in the US by Macmillan)
The Guantánamo Files
See the definitive prisoner list here
Andy is also the co-director (with Polly Nash) of the new
Guantanamo documentary,”Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo”
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