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America's disappeared : detainees, secret imprisonment, and the "War on Terror"

"On any given day, over 20,000 men, women, and children languish in indefinite detention in the United States. In Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, thousands more are imprisoned or shipped to other countries where the rules for interrogation permit greater amounts of coercion and violence. These are America's disappeared. This book contains their voices, and the voices of those who fight for their rights as human beings."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
Seven Stories Press, New York, ©2005
247 pages ; 18 cm.
9781583226452, 1583226451
57193021
Introduction / Rachel Meeropol
Open letter to president George W. Bush from former detainees / Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal
The Guantanamo prisoners / Michael Ratner
Statement / Maher Arar
Torture, "stress and duress," and rendition as counterterrorism tools / Steven MacPherson Watt
The road to Abu Ghraib / Reed Brody
Statement / Kenneth Scott
Looking for hope: life as an immigration detainee / Phillip Marcus
Statement / Hemnauth Mohabir
The post-9/11 terrorism investigation and immigration detention / Rachel Meeropol
Statement / Mohamed Maddy
What does it mean to be an "enemy combatant"? / Barbara Olshansky
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