Five Years of My Life
An Innocent Man in Guantanamo
Kurnaz, Murat
Kuhn, Helmut
Chase, Jefferson (TRN)
Smith, Patti (FRW)
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BOOK SUMMARY
The gripping account of an innocent man held prisoner in Afghanistan and Guantanamo for five years
Submit a book reviewBOOK SYNOPSIS
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.
AUTHOR BIO
Murat Kurnaz is a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany, where he was born in 1982. He was in the process of becoming a German citizen when he was arrested in Pakistan and held prisoner for five years. He now lives in Germany. This is his first book.
BOOK REVIEWS
"The most compassionate, truthful and dignified account of the disgrace of Guantanamo that you are ever likely to read." --John le Carré "A powerful and gripping account of one man's life in America's infamous prison beyond the law at Guantanamo Bay. Murat Kurnaz's story will leave you both moved and outraged at the injustice of imprisoning innocent men without due process of law." -- Jonathan Hafetz, Litigation Director, Liberty & National Security Project, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law "Kurnaz recounts his woes, and those of his fellow prisoners, with modesty and compassion. . . . He has written a measured and readable account, which is often even humorous in a Swiftian sort of way."--The Economist
"This book hurts. As it should. Whoever reads this book won't forget it for a long time."-- Tageszeitung
"This book is both impressive and oppressive and should be made required reading for our foreign minister and for all the people who stood in the way of this man's return."-- Frankfurter Rundschau
"If you want to know the exact meaning of the true the cost in terms of human rights and humanity in the international war on terror, read this book. It will be a shocking experience."-- Tagesspiegel
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0230603742
ISBN(13-digit): 9780230603745
Dewey Decimal: 973.931092
Library of Congress: 2007023633
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 255
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