Opening Gitmo to the world
To read“ Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo” is to run your mind along the contours of hell. The next step, if you're an American, is to embrace it. This is who we are: We are the proprietors of a cluster of human cages and a Kafkaesque maze of legal insanity.
To read âWitnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamoâ is to run your mind along the contours of hell.
The next step, if you're an American, is to embrace it. Claim it. This is who we are: We are the proprietors of a cluster of human cages and a Kafkaesque maze of legal insanity. This torture center is still open. Men ("forever prisoners") are still being held there, their imprisonment purporting to keep us safe.
The book, by Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir -- two Algerian men arrested in Bosnia in 2011 and wrongly accused of being terrorists -- allows us to imagine ourselves at Guantanamo, this outpost of the Endless War.
"'Take him outside,' the interrogator told them. They led me up a flight
