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 handed over to U.S. forces. He was first taken to Kandahar, Afghanistan, held for two months, and then flown to Guantanamo Bay as Prisoner #61. For more than 1.600 days he lived through hell. He was kept in a cage and endured daily interrogations, sexual humiliation, solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, and other forms of torture. Finally, in August 2006, Kurnaz was released. Told with lucidity, accuracy, wisdom, and wit, 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, and about the capacity of the human spirit to endure.
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