| Guantanamo: The War on Human Rights Contributor(s): Rose, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1565849574 ISBN-13: 9781565849570 Publisher: New Press OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2004 Annotation: - Senior counterintelligence officials disclose how interrogation techniques used at Guantanamo have led many detainees to make false confessions and accusations - Never-before-published government documents reveal the camp's secret rules, belying the Bush administration's claim that detainees are always treated humanely - Meeting minutes suggest that General Geoffrey Miller, the former commandant later in charge of Abu Ghraib, seriously misled the Red Cross about camp conditions and interrogation procedures - Four former detainees paint a grim and shocking picture of life as a Guantanamo prisoner |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Terrorism - Political Science | Human Rights - Political Science | Political Freedom |
| Dewey: 973.931 |
| LCCN: 2004058172 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.56" W x 7.68" (0.61 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Praised as a tour-de-force deconstruction of Bush's supermax gulag (San Diego Union Tribune) when first published in hardcover, Guantánamo makes shocking allegations about the infamous U.S. detention camp in Cuba. Award-winning journalist David Rose argues that the camp not only constitutes a grotesque abuse of human rights but is also ineffective as a tool for combating terrorism. Through firsthand research in Cuba, government documents, and dozens of interviews with guards, intelligence officials, military lawyers, and former detainees, Rose sheds light on Gitmo's ugly inner workings. He reveals that, contrary to the Bush administration's claims, the prisoners at Guantánamo are not the hardest of the hard-core Al Qaeda terrorists, ruthless men involved in a plot to kill thousands of ordinary Americans. And he provides solid evidence that the brutal interrogations that supposedly justify the camp's existence have yielded very little useful intelligence. |