Perspective
Apr. 25, 2015
Guantanamo from a prisoner's perspective
I wonder if the most amazing thing about "Guantanamo Diary" is that its 466 pages were written by hand by Mahamedou Ould Slahi while he was imprisoned in a segregation hut in Camp Echo, Guantanamo in 2005. By Elaine Elinson
I wonder if the most amazing thing about "Guantanamo Diary" is that its 466 pages
were written by hand by Mahamedou Ould Slahi while he was imprisoned in a segregation
hut in Camp Echo, Guantanamo in 2005.
Or that Slahi wrote it in English, his fourth language, which he learned during his
imprisonment from American prison guards and interrogators.
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