Selling Guantánamo [electronic resource] : exploding the propaganda surrounding America's most notorious military prison / John Hickman.
Material type: TextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)ISBN:- 9780813048406
- 355.1/29609729167 23
- HV6432 .H525 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1: The official explanation. 1. Framing the decision -- 2. Strange consensus -- 3. Three comparable historical cases -- 4. Extraordinary threat -- 5. Intelligence collection -- 6. Prosecution -- Part 2: The alternative explanation. 7. Spectacle of victory -- 8. Punishment -- 9. Announcement -- Part 3: Repercussions. 10. Closing Guantánamo -- 11. After Guantánamo.
Challenges the U.S. government's official explanation for keeping hundreds of POWs from the War in Afghanistan in continued custody at Guantanamo.
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