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Author Hickman, John Charles, 1954-

Title Selling Guantanamo : exploding the propaganda surrounding America's most notorious military prison / John Hickman.

Imprint Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  355.1296 H528s 2013    ---  Available
Description 279 pages ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index.
Summary Challenges the U.S. government's official explanation for keeping hundreds of POWs from the War in Afghanistan in continued custody at Guantanamo.
Contents Part 1: The official explanation. 1. Framing the decision -- 2. Strange consensus -- 3. Three comparable historical cases -- 4. Extraordinary threat -- 5. Intelligence collection -- 6. Prosecution -- Part 2: The alternative explanation. 7. Spectacle of victory -- 8. Punishment -- 9. Announcement -- Part 3: Repercussions. 10. Closing Guantanamo -- 11. After Guantanamo.
Subject Prisoners of war -- Cuba -- Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Prisoners and prisons.
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba)
Afghan War (2001- ) (OCoLC)fst01695175
War on Terrorism (2001-2009) (OCoLC)fst01754980
Prisoners. (OCoLC)fst01077103
Prisoners of war. (OCoLC)fst01077227
Cuba -- Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. (OCoLC)fst01228663
Chronological Term 2001 - 2009
ISBN 9780813044552 (alk. paper)
0813044553 (alk. paper)
Standard No. 40022449195

 
    
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