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My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar
New Press
September 2006
On Sale: September 11, 2006
Featuring: Moazzam Begg
352 pages
ISBN: 1595581367
EAN: 9781595581365
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The searing story of one man's years inside the
notorious American prison—and his Kafkaesque struggle to
clear his name.
"Under the hood I felt I
couldn't breathe properly….Flashing lights—obviously from
soldiers' cameras taking trophy pictures—came and went in
front of me, despite the hood's darkness. From beside me a
voice said in Arabic, 'Shall we pray, brother?' A guard came
and screamed in my ear, 'Shut up, motherfucker, if you speak
again I'll kill you.'"—from Enemy
Combatant
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has become a
worldwide symbol of the dark side of America's War on
Terror. Here, for the first time, is a powerful and moving
story from the other side, the first detainee's account of
life inside the notorious prison. A highly educated British
Muslim, Moazzam Begg spent three years in U.S. custody,
nearly two of them in Guantánamo, before being released
without charge in January of 2005.
Enemy
Combatant, written with respected UK journalist Victoria
Brittain, is the wrenching narrative of Begg's detention,
including his eighteen months in solitary confinement.
Secretly abducted at midnight from his home in Afghanistan,
held incommunicado in Kandahar and Bagram Air Force base,
Begg was eventually flown to Guantánamo, where, like more
than 800 Muslim men and boys—550 of whom remain in
custody—he was held in shackles and the now-trademark orange
prison uniform, subjected to relentless interrogations and
abusive and degrading conditions.
A riveting,
personal story by a thoughtful and eloquent man, Enemy
Combatant is a uniquely personal indictment of America's
establishment of a global gulag that flouts the Geneva
conventions—one of the great miscarriages of justice in our
time.
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