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EBOOK Least Worst Place:Guantanamo's First 100 Days

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199832095
EAN: 373DBA55EB
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Stron: 288
Data wydania: 2009
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Guantanamo's First 100 Days
In January 2002, the first flight of detainees captured in the "e;Global War on        Terror"e; disembarked in Guantanamo Bay, dazed, bewildered, and--more often than        not--alarmingly thin. Given very little advance notice, the military's preparations        for this group of predominantly unimportant ne'er-do-wells were hastily thrown        together, but as Karen Greenberg shows, a number of capable and honorable Marine        officers tried to create a humane and just detention center--only to be thwarted by        the Bush Administration.The Least Worst Place is a gripping narrative account of the        first one hundred days of Guantanamo. Greenberg, one of America's leading experts on        the Bush Administration's policies on terrorism, tells the story through a group of        career officers who tried--and ultimately failed--to stymie the Pentagon's desire to        implement harsh new policies in Guantanamo and bypass the Geneva Conventions. She        sets her story in Camp X-Ray, which underwent a remarkably quick transformation from        a sleepy naval outpost in the tropics into a globally infamous holding pen. Peopled        with genuine heroes and villains, this narrative of the earliest days of the        post-9/11 era centers on the conflicts between Gitmo-based Marine officers intent on        upholding the Geneva Accords and an intelligence unit set up under the Pentagon's        aegis. The latter ultimately won out, replacing transparency with secrecy, military        protocol with violations of basic operation procedures, and humane and legal        detainee treatment with harsh interrogation methods and torture.Guantanamo's first        100 days set up patterns of power that would come to dominate the Bush        administration's overall strategy in the war on terror. Karen Greenberg's riveting        account puts a human face on this little-known story, revealing how America first        lost its moral bearings in the wake of 9/11.

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