The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Map     xi
Preface     xii
"Operation Enduring Freedom"     1
Osama bin Laden: Wanted, Dead or Alive     1
"Operation Enduring Freedom"     5
The Qala-i-Janghi Massacre     9
The "uprising"     9
The survivors' stories     11
The Convoy of Death     19
Yerghanek and Qala Zeini     19
Sheberghan     23
Tora Bora     26
Tora Bora     26
The survivors     29
Escape to Pakistan: "Osama's Bodyguards"     40
The first group of prisoners     40
Religious teachers and humanitarian aid workers     43
Escape to Pakistan: Saudis and Yemenis     49
The second group of prisoners     49
The Saudi foot soldiers     50
The Saudi humanitarian aid workers and religious teachers     54
The Yemenis     57
Escape to Pakistan: The Diaspora     61
The Jalalabad connection: Europeans and North Africans     61
Other Europeans and North Africans     67
Other humanitarian aid workers and religious teachers     72
The Uyghurs     76
Detention in Pakistan     78
Kandahar     81
The fall of Kandahar and the escape of Mullah Omar     81
The prison opens     84
Abusive treatment during detention     86
Abandoning the Geneva Conventions     89
Interrogations     91
Abuse during interrogations by the CIA and Special Forces     96
From Sheberghan to Kandahar     100
Screening     100
Afghans transferred from Sheberghan     102
Pakistanis transferred from Sheberghan     104
An Australian exception     108
Others Captured in Afghanistan     111
Other foreigners transferred to Kandahar     111
The "spies"     114
Other Afghan prisoners     117
The Taliban prisoners     120
Guantanamo opens     125
"Enemy combatants"     125
Intelligence failures     128
Camp X-Ray     130
The Extreme Reaction Force     133
House Raids and Other Arrests in Pakistan     135
Random arrests     135
The first house raids     143
The capture of Riyadh the Facilitator     147
The Capture of Abu Zubaydah and its Aftermath     152
The capture of Abu Zubaydah     152
Other house raids     158
Other random arrests     167
Bagram     170
From Kandahar to Bagram     170
Torture and abuse     172
Afghans sent to Bagram     177
Other foreigners captured in Afghanistan     182
Murders in Bagram     187
Torture, Abuse and False Confessions in Guantanamo     191
The abusive reign of Geoffrey Miller     191
"Setting the conditions"     194
Torture and the Pentagon     199
The torture of Mohammed al-Qahtani     205
False confessions     209
"Extraordinary Rendition," "Ghost" Prisoners and Secret Prisons     215
"Extraordinary rendition"     215
The al-Wafa prisoners     216
Tortured in Egypt     218
Mohamedou Quid Slahi     221
The six Bosnians     222
The "Dark Prison"     224
Rendered from Zambia     227
Tortured in Morocco     229
The "Salt Pit"     231
The capture of Ramzi bin al-Shibh     234
The Yemeni colonel     236
Rendered from the Gambia     237
Renditions in 2003     239
Captured by the Russian mafia     240
Losing the War in Afghanistan     244
More murders in US custody     244
Capturing Karzai's men     245
Other betrayals     250
Teenagers and farmers     252
A sad conclusion     255
Challenging the Law     257
The first challenges     257
Testimonies of released prisoners     260
Landmark decisions in the Supreme Court     261
Combatant Status Review Tribunals     264
The first Military Commissions     266
The Detainee Treatment Act     267
Suicides and Hunger Strikes     269
The three suicides     269
Other suicide attempts     270
Hunger strikes and the abuse of the Koran     271
Medical malpractice     276
Endgame?     281
Another landmark decision in the Supreme Court     281
The 14 "high-value" prisoners     282
The Military Commissions Act     288
No end in sight     289
Notes     296
Index     325