| Author: | Carol Rosenberg | ISBN: | 9781633533660 |
| Publisher: | Mango Media | Publication: | August 9, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Herald Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Carol Rosenberg |
| ISBN: | 9781633533660 |
| Publisher: | Mango Media |
| Publication: | August 9, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Herald Books |
| Language: | English |
Dispatches from the award-winning journalist who has been reporting on the US’s controversial military prison on Cuba for more than fifteen years.
In January 2002, an editor at the Miami Herald dispatched correspondent Carol Rosenberg to report on an emerging US military mission at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. The Pentagon was setting up a war on terror prison at Camp X-Ray. Rosenberg called it “The Alcatraz of the Caribbean.” She saw US Marines walk the first twenty prisoners off a US Air Force cargo plane from Afghanistan looking like a poor man’s Hannibal Lecter—in orange jumpsuits and shackles and surgical masks and blackout goggles. Hundreds more would follow. Hundreds were set free or transferred to other countries. Nine would die. And still, Rosenberg’s assignment is not over.
In Rosenberg’s more than fifteen years reporting about the US Navy base called Gitmo, it has become “The Most Expensive Prison on Earth,” costing $5.6 million a year per prisoner by White House estimates. The Miami Herald calls the indefinite detainees “forever prisoners,” captives of a global war against an enemy with no leader to surrender.
This Herald Books edition offers a unique perspective on the people, policy, and place that strike Rosenberg as the first no-exit-strategy, US military enterprise since the Vietnam War. Her dispatches are inside.
Dispatches from the award-winning journalist who has been reporting on the US’s controversial military prison on Cuba for more than fifteen years.
In January 2002, an editor at the Miami Herald dispatched correspondent Carol Rosenberg to report on an emerging US military mission at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. The Pentagon was setting up a war on terror prison at Camp X-Ray. Rosenberg called it “The Alcatraz of the Caribbean.” She saw US Marines walk the first twenty prisoners off a US Air Force cargo plane from Afghanistan looking like a poor man’s Hannibal Lecter—in orange jumpsuits and shackles and surgical masks and blackout goggles. Hundreds more would follow. Hundreds were set free or transferred to other countries. Nine would die. And still, Rosenberg’s assignment is not over.
In Rosenberg’s more than fifteen years reporting about the US Navy base called Gitmo, it has become “The Most Expensive Prison on Earth,” costing $5.6 million a year per prisoner by White House estimates. The Miami Herald calls the indefinite detainees “forever prisoners,” captives of a global war against an enemy with no leader to surrender.
This Herald Books edition offers a unique perspective on the people, policy, and place that strike Rosenberg as the first no-exit-strategy, US military enterprise since the Vietnam War. Her dispatches are inside.
