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An Innocent Man in Guantanamo
Palgrave Macmillan
February 2008
On Sale: February 6, 2008
256 pages
ISBN: 0230603742
EAN: 9780230603745
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In October 2001, nineteen-year-old Murat Kurnaz traveled to
Pakistan to visit a madrassa. During a security check a few
weeks after his arrival, he was arrested without explanation
and for a bounty of $3,000, the Pakistani police sold him to
U.S. forces. He was first taken to Kandahar, Afghanistan,
where he was severely mistreated, and then two months later
he was flown to Guantanamo as Prisoner #61. For more than
1,600 days, he was tortured and lived through hell. He was
kept in a cage and endured daily interrogations, solitary
confinement, and sleep deprivation. Finally, in August 2006,
Kurnaz was released, with acknowledgment of his innocence.
Told with lucidity, accuracy, and wisdom, Kurnaz's story is
both sobering and poignant--an important testimony about our
turbulent times when innocent people get caught in the
crossfire of the war on terrorism.
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