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...being held in Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The detainees no longer have to relieve themselves into plastic bags. Bensayah Belkacem, an Algerian who is suspected of plotting to blow up the American embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, shared the news in a recent letter to his wife. Anela Kobilica told TIME last week that her husband detailed Gitmo's new sanitary arrangements. Delta's 612 cells--metal boxes about 8 ft. square--are now equipped with flushable toilets and knee-high sinks in which devout Muslims can perform their ritual ablutions. Air-conditioning is still provided only...
...themselves out." Bosnia, of course, is not the only place to have seen a shift toward preemptive justice and the use of "secret evidence" to detain terror suspects since Sept. 11. But NATO peacekeepers hold unusually sweeping powers in the Balkans, and the consequences of alienating Muslims are worrying. Anela Kobilica, wife of one of the six Algerians deported to Guantanamo Bay, paused on a dusty road in the town of Zenica. "This is not a war on terror," she said, holding up her veil for emphasis. "This is a war on Islam." In the current atmosphere...
Isabel Dyson is a young white girl who once felt "very virtuous about our pioneering mission." Thami Mbikwana is a 17-Year-old Black man who tells her in exasperation, "going to school doesn't mean the same to us as it does to you." Anela Myalatya is a Black teacher in a ghetto school who has "seen too much of it, wasted chances, wasted people." My Children My Africa! is about a country that could ours, about a country inhabited by lunacy but home to people who unrelentingly search for "opportunity to fight the lunacy...
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