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The Guantánamo Conundrum
Dealing with the Forever Prison of America s Forever Warsby Karen Greenberg and Tom Engelhardt Posted on
Originally posted at TomDispatch.
It seemed obvious enough to me in 2006. When you included the CIA’s “black sites” around the globe (where prisoners from the war on terror were being kept and regularly tortured), American military prisons like the shocking Abu Ghraib in Iraq, which had just then been emptied, and the huge military prison camps named Bucca and Cropper, which remained in use, as well as military prisons in Afghanistan, and the already infamous detention center at Guantánamo
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Dealing with the forever prison of America s forever wars.
The Guantánamo conundrum never seems to end.
Twelve years ago, I had other expectations. I envisioned a writing project that I had no doubt would be part of my future: an account of Guantánamoâs last 100 days. I expected to narrate in reverse, the episodes in a book I had just published,
The Least Worst Place: Guantánamoâs First 100 Days, about â well, the title makes it all too obvious â the initial days at that grim offshore prison. They began on January 11, 2002, as the first hooded prisoners of the American war on terror were ushered off a plane at that American military base on the island of Cuba.
If Biden Wants to Truly End War on Terror, He Must Release Guantánamo Prisoners
A U.S. Army soldier stands outside the entrance of the Gitmo military prison on October 22, 2016, at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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The Guantánamo conundrum never seems to end.
Twelve years ago, I had other expectations. I envisioned a writing project that I had no doubt would be part of my future: an account of Guantánamoâs last 100 days. I expected to narrate in reverse, the episodes in a book I had just published,
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