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The Least Worst Place - How Guantanamo Became the World's Most Notorious Prison (Hardcover)
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The Least Worst Place - How Guantanamo Became the World's Most Notorious Prison (Hardcover)
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Ever since its foundation in 2002, the Guantanamo Bay Detention
Facility has become the symbol for many people around the world of
all that is wrong with the 'war on terror'. Secretive, inhumane,
and illegal by most international standards, it has been seen by
many as a testament to American hubris in the post-9/11 era. Yet
until now no one has written about the most revealing part of the
story - the prison's first 100 days. It was during this time that a
group of career military men and women tried to uphold the
traditional military codes of honour and justice that informed
their training in the face of a far more ruthless, less rule-bound,
civilian leadership in the Pentagon. They were defeated. This book
tells their story for the first time. It is a tale of how
individual officers on the ground at Guantanamo, along with their
direct superiors, struggled with their assignment from Washington,
only to be unwittingly co-opted into the Pentagon's plan to turn
the prison into an interrogation facility operating at the margins
of the law and beyond.
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