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Guant namo Bay

The Pentagon?s Alcatraz of the Caribbean
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In January 2002, an editor at the Miami Herald dispatched correspondent Carol Rosenberg to report on an emerging U.S. military mission at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The Pentagon was setting up a war on terror prison at Camp X-Ray. She called it The Alcatraz of the Caribbean. She saw U.S. Marines walk the first 20 prisoners off a U.S. Air Force cargo plane from Afghanistan looking like a poor man's Hannibal Lecter - in orange jumpsuits and shackles and surgical masks and blackout goggles. Hundreds more would follow, and hundreds got to go, nine of them dead. And her assignment is still not over. For 15 years Carol Rosenberg has reported about the U.S. Navy base called Gitmo. The newspaper called it The Most Expensive Prison on Earth first, by White House estimates $5.6 million a year per prisoner. The newspaper calls the indefinite detainees forever prisoners, captives of a global war against an enemy with no leader to surrender. This Herald Books edition offers a unique perspective on the people, policy, and place that strikes Rosenberg as the first no-exit-strategy, U.S. military enterprise since the Vietnam War. Her dispatches are inside.

Author Biography:

Carol Rosenberg is a senior journalist, with the McClatchy News Service. A military-affairs reporter at the Miami Herald, since January 2002 she has reported on the operation of the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps, at its naval base in Cuba. Her coverage of captives at Guantanamo Bay has been praised by her colleagues and legal scholars, and she has been invited to speak about it at the National Press Club. In 2011 she received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for her nearly decade of work on the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
Release date NZ
August 9th, 2016
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United States
Imprint
Herald Books
Pages
328
Publisher
Mango Media
Dimensions
124x203x18
ISBN-13
9781633533653
Product ID
24518451

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