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...prisoner didn't trust his lawyer at the start, refusing even to speak with her. She did what she could to win his confidence, donning a hijab, the head covering worn by observant Muslim women, when she visited him at Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Eventually, he began to ask how his aging father in Saudi Arabia made contact with her, how he could be sure she was not another interrogator trying to extract more information from him. "He asked me the same questions over and over," says Gitanjali Gutierrez. "He desperately sought...
...tour Lévy makes sure to visit a gun show in Fort Worth, a "partner-swapping club" in San Francisco, the gigantic Mall of America near Minneapolis, the Kennedy assassination site in Dallas, a Nevada brothel and two evangelical megachurches. He even gets into Guantánamo, which - having by now seen several U.S. prisons, as did De Tocqueville - he finds representative of America's vindictive attitude toward incarceration. Like De Tocqueville, Lévy encounters many of the leading lights of the day: George W. Bush ("a cunning child"), Hillary Clinton (driven by the Monica Lewinsky affair...
...Number of Guantánamo Bay detainees classified as "enemy combatants" by the United States, according to a recent study of Defense Department data 55% Proportion of those detainees who have not been positively determined to have committed any hostile acts against U.S. or allied forces, according to the study
...have got themselves into. History has shown that men do not easily give up power once they have it. Henrik Segersven Espoo, Finland Sure, the domestic-surveillance program makes sense for protecting Americans. But what if it results in throwing even more people into the prison at Guantánamo or perhaps the invasion of yet another Middle Eastern country? Then we might discover that such U.S. actions were also based on faulty intelligence. Aly Marei London I have no issue with anyone listening to my phone calls or reading my mail if it means I will be safe when...
...protection against critics. It secured assurances from Nato that allies would come to their aid in the case of serious escalation. It also stipulated that any prisoners Dutch troops took would be treated in accordance with international law, spared from the death penalty - and not sent to Guantánamo. But observers stress that the government needs a substantial majority in the 150-seat parliament - "more than just 75 and a handful," as one Foreign Ministry official said - to go ahead with the deployment. Even if the mandate for deployment is clear, there's a risk that coalition partner...