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Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar

por Moazzam Begg

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The "shocking firsthand account" ("Chicago Sun-Times") of one man's years inside the notorious American prison--and his Kafkaesque struggle to clear his name. When "Enemy Combatant" was first published in the United States in hardcover in 2006 it garnered sensational reviews, and its author was featured in the "New York Times, the Los Angeles Times," on National Public Radio, and on ABC News. A second generation British Muslim, Begg had been held by the U.S. military for more than three years before being released without charge in January of 2005. His memoir is the first published account by a Guantanamo detainee of life inside the infamous prison. Writing in the "Washington Post Book World," Jane Mayer described "Enemy Combatant" as "fascinating...Begg provides some ideological counterweight to the one-sided spin coming from the U.S. government. He writes passionately and personally, stripping readers of the comforting lie that somehow the detainees aren't really like us, with emotional attachments, intellectual interests and fully developed humanity." Recommended by the "Financial Times" and "Tikkun" magazine and a "ColorLines" Editors' Pick of Post-9/11 Books, "Enemy Combatant" is "a forcefully told, up-to-the-minute political story...necessary reading for people on all sides of the issue" ("Publishers Weekly," starred review).… (mais)
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This book is nothing but Jihad propaganda. From the moment you start reading you know this guy is not being truthful and is exaggerating his story. It is also obvious from his past that he completely supports Jihad and war against western culture. And while he may not have been charged with anything in this book, he is currently charged with terrorist activity in Syria. Go figure. ( )
  davidtaylorjr | Aug 12, 2015 |
Moazzam Begg was a young muslim working in Pakistan shortly after 9/11. He had been an idealist. He had visited sensitive places particularly in Afghanistan. And that was about it. Although it was enough to see him abducted from his home and, via Kandahar and Bagram, to become one of the British detainees in Guantanamo Bay.

He remained in detention for 3 years. He was in solitary confinement for much of the time. He was interrogated time and time again. He was threatened with death and torture. Finally he was freed without ever finding out what he was supposed to have done. Neither has he ever received an apology or explanation.

This is a well written book that confirms what we have all suspected about Guantanamo. The nightmare is made more stark by Begg's writing. He comes across as a quiet intelligent young man with a dry sense of humour. One poignant moment is when he and other detainees discuss the rights and wrongs of militant Islam - Begg taking a moderate tone which contrasts with the attitude of the powers that have detained him. Indeed he also shows a remarkable lack of bitterness. For months on end his only human contact was the particular guard who was watching him. He builds up a sympathetic relationship with these guards against whom no persoanl grudge is seen.

Anyone who has any doubts about this affront to human rights which should embarass all of us in the West should read this book. ( )
  stevecornforth | Oct 17, 2006 |
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The "shocking firsthand account" ("Chicago Sun-Times") of one man's years inside the notorious American prison--and his Kafkaesque struggle to clear his name. When "Enemy Combatant" was first published in the United States in hardcover in 2006 it garnered sensational reviews, and its author was featured in the "New York Times, the Los Angeles Times," on National Public Radio, and on ABC News. A second generation British Muslim, Begg had been held by the U.S. military for more than three years before being released without charge in January of 2005. His memoir is the first published account by a Guantanamo detainee of life inside the infamous prison. Writing in the "Washington Post Book World," Jane Mayer described "Enemy Combatant" as "fascinating...Begg provides some ideological counterweight to the one-sided spin coming from the U.S. government. He writes passionately and personally, stripping readers of the comforting lie that somehow the detainees aren't really like us, with emotional attachments, intellectual interests and fully developed humanity." Recommended by the "Financial Times" and "Tikkun" magazine and a "ColorLines" Editors' Pick of Post-9/11 Books, "Enemy Combatant" is "a forcefully told, up-to-the-minute political story...necessary reading for people on all sides of the issue" ("Publishers Weekly," starred review).

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