Terry Holdbrooks stood watch over prisoners at Gitmo. What he saw made him adopt their faith. By Dan Ephron Army specialist Terry Holdbrooks had been a guard at Guantánamo for about six months the night he had his life-altering conversation with detainee 590, a Moroccan also known as “the General.†This was early 2004, about halfway through Holdbrooks’s stint at Guantánamo with the 463rd Military Police Company. Until then, he’d spent most of his day shifts just doing … [Read more...]
Guantanamo, The Inside Story by Yvonne Ridley
February 4, 2009 By
Guantanamo Bay is, without doubt, the world’s most notorious prison, which has left an indelible stain on the Bush administration. One of the first acts of U.S. President Barack Obama was to order its closure and there is speculation that some of the detainees may now be offered asylum in Wales. I am one of the few journalists to visit the sprawling naval base. I traveled there with filmmaker David Miller, whose documentary “Guantanamo: Inside the Wire†is to be screened tomorrow. I … [Read more...]
Sami al-Hajj: ‘Thank You, Guantanamo’
October 14, 2008 By
Tima Chadid of Al-Akhbar met with Sami al-Hajj, the Al Jazeera cameraman who spent more than six years in Guantanamo Bay. Back in Doha, El-Hajj has established a new department at Al Jazeera to promote human rights and expose abuses. By TIMA CHADID via Caged Prisoners DOHA, October 7, 2008 (AL-AKHBAR) – Six years and six months in jail have not been a waste for Sami al-Hajj. Despite the bitterness, the interrogations, the torture that he was subjected to and that he saw others being subjected … [Read more...]
Reports Reveal Khadr’s Life in Guantanamo
October 7, 2008 By
Source: Cagedprisoners The reports read like a diary of his years of incarceration. Omar Khadr the stubborn teenager. Confused. Depressed. Angry. From the mundane complaints about tasteless food and shoes that don't fit, to the days when he fears he's going completely blind. He has read The Life of Pi. He loves To Kill a Mockingbird. He's learning French and yoga. Recently a piece of shrapnel was finally was ejected from his body six years after it was embedded there, bursting through the skin near … [Read more...]
Guantanamo: A Gitmo Guard’s Experience
August 6, 2008 By
What It Feels Like... To Be a Prison Guard at Guantánamo Bay By Christopher Arendt, 24, Student from Caged Prisoners I liked working night shifts, because whenever they were awake, I wanted to apologize to them. When they were sleeping, I didn’t have to worry about that. I could just walk up and down the blocks all night long. There was usually one detainee who would lead the call to prayer at five in the morning. That person was in the very last cell. The detainees, they sang … [Read more...]
Guantanamo: What it feels like to be a Prisoner
August 5, 2008 By
As time goes by, more and more stories of the horror and atrocities from Gitmo are surfacing. What it feels like to be a Prisoner at Guantanamo Bay By Murat Kurnaz from Caged Prisoners They used to beat everybody. There was a man -- he was really old and couldn’t see and couldn’t hear. If the guards told him something to do and he didn’t do it because he couldn’t hear, they went into his cage and beat him up. They did this for a couple minutes, and after that they … [Read more...]
Who will care for this Boy – Omar Khadr
July 23, 2008 By
Articles like these bring up strong emotions of sadness, and then immeditely after that anger and contempt for the US Government, their allies & everything that they stand for. It's no more a war on terror, it never was - as the days go by, it becomes clearer and clearer for the average layman muslim on the street to see that this is a war on Islam & muslims. From Caged Prisoners His hair has grown, his voice sounds a little deeper and his wounds appear to have healed somewhat. … [Read more...]
Five years of my Life: An innocent man in Guantanamo
May 12, 2008 By
As tiresome and cliche as it may seem, it still frustrating and makes one angry to hear of such injustices by a supposed 'freedom fighter' & a military that claims to 'liberate the oppressed' via cagedprisoners FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE An Innocent Man in Guantanamo By Murat Kurnaz with Helmut Kuhn Translated from the German by Jefferson Chase. Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen and resident of Germany, had been traveling in Pakistan in December 2001 when he was detained on his way to the … [Read more...]
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