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My Guantanamo Diary by Mahvish Khan

My Guantanamo Diary

The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me

by Mahvish Khan
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  • Jun 23, 2008, 320 pages
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  • Jun 2009, 320 pages
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The panel sat in silence.

...

Finally, the tribunal president spoke. “Very well, thank you for your testimony,” he said. And that was all.

Mousovi went back to Camp Delta that afternoon. Several days later, he received notice that the military panel had declared him an enemy combatant.

From the book My Guantánamo Diary by Mahvish Khan. Reprinted by arrangement with PublicAffairs (www.publicaffairsbooks.com), a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright © 2008.

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