My Guantanamo Diary The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me

Name: My Guantanamo Diary The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me
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ISBN: 9781586487072

ISBN-10: 1586487078

ISBN-13: 9781586487072

Edition: 2009

Authors: Mahvish Khan

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Mahvish Khan is the only Afghan-American to walk into Guantanamo of her own accord. This unique book is her story, and the story of the men she grew to know uniquely well inside the cages of Guantanamo. Mahvish Khan is an American lawyer, born to immigrant Afghan parents. She was outraged that her country, the USA, seemed to have suspended its tradition of equality for all under the law with regard to those imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, and so she volunteered to translate for the lawyers - including British lawyer and founder of Reprieve Clive Stafford Smith - acting pro bono for the prisoners. Because she spoke their language, understood their customs and brought them Starbucks…

Book details

List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 6/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.87" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Author's Note


Prologue



Secret Clearance



The Pediatrician



Getting There



The Old Man



Big Bounties



The Goatherd



The Lawyers



The Businessman



Afghanistan



Kabul



Dead Detainees



Habeas Hurdles



Sami Al-Haj



The Drama



Jumah Al-Dossary



What The Pentagon Said



The Police Chief



The Poets



Serial Numbers


Epilogue


Notes