Word: guant
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Bowman, 26, a rising star on the Irish stand-up scene, has been setting off comic explosions for 18 months now with Jesus: The Guantánamo Years. In the one-man routine, Bowman is Jesus, who, at the behest of his aging dad, returns to earth for a comeback tour. Since he's a bearded Palestinian willing to die as a martyr, the messiah is stopped at U.S. Immigration and shipped off to Guantánamo Bay. He finds himself trapped on an island that's become a maximum-security prison, designed by the people who brought the world...
...While non-Americans have railed against U.S. policies over the past few years, much of the world has continued to love America, or at least the idea of America. A good part of the anger over the treatment of prisoners in Guantánamo Bay is explained not just by the fact that torture may have been used, but by the sense that the U.S. has failed to live up to its own ideals. For many non-Americans, the U.S. elections hold out the promise of change, of renewed leadership. "A lot of what French people identify as negative influences...
...Catholic-school girl to ever be disruptive. The only thing that gives me the courage to do things-because I'm a shy person-is the idea of living with myself afterward. At the 1993 Academy Awards, when we talked about the Haitian refugees being held in Guantánamo, I could barely breathe...
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Hicks was guarding a Taliban tank in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, before heading north to the front lines near Kunduz. He was then captured and handed over to U.S. troops for a fee, and transferred to the Guantánamo Bay Prison in Cuba, where he was detained for five years without charge - and where, his supporters say, he was beaten and tortured...
Meanwhile, his Australian-based father waged a campaign for his release. Backed by human-rights lawyers, his campaign prompted the Australian government to pressure U.S. authorities to charge his son; in March 2007 David Hicks became the first Guantánamo detainee to be convicted under the U.S. Military Commissions Act of 2006. Hicks pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism, and was sentenced to seven years (reduced to nine months for time served), but gave no insight into how a young father of two ended up in the inner sanctum of al-Qaeda's training camps in Afghanistan...