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The least worst place : how Guantanamo became the world's most notorious prison /

The tale of how individual officers on the ground at Guantanamo Bay, along with their direct superiors, were unwittingly co-opted into the Pentagon's plan to turn the prison into an interrogation facility operating at the margins of the law and beyond. - ;Ever since its foundation in 2002, the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greenberg, Karen J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The tale of how individual officers on the ground at Guantanamo Bay, along with their direct superiors, were unwittingly co-opted into the Pentagon's plan to turn the prison into an interrogation facility operating at the margins of the law and beyond. - ;Ever since its foundation in 2002, the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility has become the symbol for many people around the world of all that is wrong with the 'war on terror'. Secretive, inhumane, and illegal by most international standards, it has been seen by many as a testament to American hubris in the post-9/11 era. Yet until now no one h.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 260 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-252) and index.
ISBN:9780191567865
0191567868