Five years of my life : an innocent man in Guantanamo

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    • Kurnaz, Murat
    • Kuhn, Helmut
    • Chase, Jefferson
    • Smith, Patti

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Five years of my life : an innocent man in Guantanamo

Murat Kurnaz with Helmut Kuhn ; translated by Jefferson Chase ; foreword by Patti Smith

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Fünf Jahre meines Lebens

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Description

In October 2001, nineteen-year-old Murat Kurnaz traveled to Pakistan to visit a madrassa. During a security check a few weeks after his arrival, he was arrested without explanation and for a bounty of $3,000, the Pakistani police sold him to U.S. forces. He was first taken to Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he was severely mistreated, and then two months later he was flown to Guantanamo as Prisoner #61. For more than 1,600 days, he was tortured and lived through hell. He was kept in a cage and endured daily interrogations, solitary confinement, and sleep deprivation. Finally, in August 2006, Kurnaz was released, with acknowledgment of his innocence. Told with lucidity, accuracy, and wisdom, Kurnaz's story is both sobering and poignant - an important testimony about our turbulent times when innocent people get caught in the crossfire of the war on terrorism.

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Patti Smith Without Chains, by Patti Smith Translator's Note Chronology of Events Frankfurt Airport Peshawar, Pakistan Kandahar, Afghanistan Kusca, Turkey Guantanamo Bay, Camp X-Ray Bremen, Hemelingen Guantanamo Bay, Camp X-Ray Guantanamo Bay, Camp Delta Guantanamo Bay, Camp Echo Guantanamo Bay, Camp 4 Ramstein Air Base, Germany Bremen, Hemelingen Epilogue by Baher Azmy

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