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After Guantánamo

 

Guantanamo Bay

The day Franklin Roosevelt died, one reporter turned to another and said: “Now we’ll have to grow up.” The same might be said with the departure of George W. Bush. The era of Bush-bashing is over, and now we’ll have to grow up and start thinking seriously about a whole set of issues that don’t lend themselves to easy or even morally coherent solutions.

Take the detainee base at Guantánamo. Last Thursday Barack Obama signed an executive order that will close the prison within a year. Approval was worldwide — hardly a surprise since the Bush administration’s treatment of prisoners at Gitmo and elsewhere has been subjected to a steady barrage of (deserved) criticism for several years now. Here, for example, is a list of only some of the books reviewed in the Book Review that have reported on the Bush-Cheney excesses:

Campaigns : Aafia Siddiqui: Urgent Appeal: Aafia Siddiqui Remains Missing With Her Three Children Five Years After Arrest

Urgent Appeal: Aafia Siddiqui Remains Missing With Her Three Children Five Years After Arrest

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-167-2008

PAKISTAN/USA: A lady doctor remains missing with her three children five years after her arrest

ISSUES: Disappearance; rape; violence against Buy vpxl online women; torture; right to liberty and security; arbitrary arrest and detention

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that Dr. Afia Siddiqui, was arrested along with her three children by a Pakistani intelligence agency in early 2003 and has been missing since then. American and Pakistani intelligence agencies confirmed that she had been arrested in connection with Al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation run by Osama Bin Laden. However, later both agencies denied that she had been arrested. Dr. Afia’s whereabouts remain unknown but it is suspected that she is being held in an American detention centre.