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Title America's disappeared : detainees, secret imprisonment, and the "War on Terror" / edited by Rachel Meeropol, with Reed Brody ... [et al.].

Imprint New York : Seven Stories Press, c2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.931 Am35d 2005    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 247 p. ; 18 cm.
Series Open media book
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Rachel Meeropol -- Open letter to president George W. Bush from former detainees / Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal -- Guantanamo prisoners / Michael Ratner -- Statement / Maher Arar -- Torture, "stress and duress," and rendition as counterterrorism tools / Steven MacPherson Watt -- Road to Abu Ghraib / Reed Brody -- Statement / Kenneth Scott -- Looking for hope : life as an immigration detainee / Phillip Marcus -- Statement / Hemnauth Mohabir -- Post-9/11 terrorism investigation and immigration detention / Rachel Meeropol -- Statement / Mohamed Maddy -- What does it mean to be an "enemy combatant"? / Barbara Olshansky -- Poem for my mother.
Subject Political prisoners.
Muslims -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Muslims -- Civil rights.
Arab Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Arab Americans -- Civil rights.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Social aspects.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Political aspects.
Added Author Meeropol, Rachel.
Brody, Reed, 1953-
ISBN 1583226451 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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