| Description |
vii, 264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
My early life in Egypt -- Australia -- Leaving Australia -- Afghanistan -- Arrested in Pakistan -- Taken to Egypt -- From Egypt to Kandahar -- Guantánamo Bay -- The pressure builds -- Camp 5 -- Back home |
| Summary |
"In the early hours of 2 October 2001, Mamdouh Habib and two young German men were taken off a bus travelling between Quetta and Karachi by Pakistani security officers. It was shortly after 9/11, and only days before the United States attacked Afghanistan. The Pakistanis were rounding up anyone who looked foreign or in any way suspicious, interrogating them, and passing them on to the Americans. A few unlucky ones were then 'rendered' to a third-party country to be further interrogated and tortured, where they either disappeared into a web of secret prisons or were sent to Guantanamo Bay." |
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"This is what happened to Mamdouh Habib. Branded as a terrorist, accused of attending al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and of training the 9-11 terrorists in martial arts, Mamdouh Habib was incarcerated and tortured - first in Pakistan, and then in Egypt, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo. Eventually, after three-and-a-half years, he was released without charge from Guantanamo, and reunited with his wife and four children in Australia." "Here, for the first time, Mamdouh Habib reveals the full story of his journey to hell and back. He exposes the complicity of the Australian government in his abduction and maltreatment, as well as its subsequent neglect of him while in Guantanamo. He also describes his encounters with other well-known alleged terrorists, including his meetings with David Hicks both in Afghanistan and in Guantanamo."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Habib, Mamdouh |
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United States |
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Guantanamo Bay |
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Imprisonment |
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Counter terrorist measures |
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Muslim Australians |
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Criminal investigation |
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Autobiography |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page257 |
| Subject |
Habib, Mamdoub
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Habib, Mamdouh, 1955-
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Guantǹamo Bay Detention Camp
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Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
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Detention of persons -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Prisoners and prisons.
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Prisoners of war -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base -- Biography.
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Detention of persons -- Cuba -- Guant⡮amo Bay Naval Base
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Prisoners of war -- Cuba -- Guant⡮amo Bay Naval Base
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Prisoners of war -- Australia.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Prisoners and prisons, Australian
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Prisoners and prisons, American
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Prisoners of war -- Australia -- Biography.
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Terrorism investigation -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Author |
Collingwood, Julia.
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| LC no. |
2009286245 |
| ISBN |
9781921372391 paperback |
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