Guantanamo’s Catch-22: Defining the Rules of the Road
By Moazzam Begg | Thursday, September 14, 2006 | The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/09/14/guantanamos_catch_22_defining_the_rules_of_the_road/
Moazzam Begg is a British Muslim who spent three years in US detention, including two years at Guantanamo, before being released without charges in 2005. Here he tells a fascinating story about the trial of an American guard, who faced charges of abuse brought by another former detainee. Begg was called upon to testify for the defense. He describes the way that the guards and at least some of the detainees became friendly, guards providing the detainees’ only contact with the outside world, trusted detainees educating their keepers about Islam. The experience was the seed of this essay, which concludes that the true guilty parties in the prisoner abuse scandal are much higher in the intelligence and military organizations than the lowly guards currently being prosecuted, most of whom do not even know the written rules. WELL DUH, say we, but it makes a fascinating read…one of the few pieces by a detainee, and an eloquent one at that…BS
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