The least worst place [[electronic resource] ] : how Guantanamo became the world's most notorious prison / / Karen Greenberg

• Autore: Greenberg Karen B. <1964->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.7/1
• Soggetto topico: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 - Prisoners and prisons, American; Prisoners of war - Cuba - Guantánamo Bay Naval Base; Prisoners of war - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-252) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Guide to People; Guide to Acronyms; Preface; 1 World Gone Wrong; 2 The First Team; 3 The Void; 4 Filling the Void; 5 The Bad Guys First; 6 The Petting Zoo; Photos; 7 The Caribbean Hilton; 8 The General and the Chaplain; 9 Missing Pieces; 10 A Political Animal; 11 Towels into Turbans; 12 Bowing Out; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The tale of how individual officers on the ground at Guantanamo Bay, along with their direct superiors, were unwittingly co-opted into the Pentagon's plan to turn the prison into an interrogation facility operating at the margins of the law and beyond. - ;Ever since its foundation in 2002, the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility has become the symbol for many people around the world of all that is wrong with the 'war on terror'. Secretive, inhumane, and illegal by most international standards, it has been seen by many as a testament to American hubris in the post-9/11 era. Yet until now no one h
• Titolo autorizzato: The least worst place
• ISBN: 1-383-04576-3; 1-282-23507-9; 9786612235078; 0-19-156786-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778010503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II