Timeline: Guantánamo and the “War on Terror”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Prelude 7
5. 1 Representing the “Worst of the Worst”
6. How and Why the Lawyers Started Representing Detainees 13
7. 2 Getting behind the Wire
8. Rasul/Al Odah: The Right to Representation 29
9. 3 Uncovering Guantánamo’s Human Face
10. First Impressions 55
11. Rendered: How the Detainees Got to Guantánamo 85
12. Female Attorneys 91
13. Family Members 96
14. Interpreters 103
15. 4 Red Tape and Kangaroo Courts
16. Barriers to Representation 109
17. The No-Hearing Hearings: Combatant Status Review Tribunals 148
18. Military Commissions 169
19. Political Maneuvering 200
20. Boumediene v. Bush: The Death Knell for Prisons beyond the Law 219
21. 5 Tortured
22. A Product of Torture Culture 229
23. Reactions 255
24. Hunger Strikes 265
25. Suicides 281
26. 6 Alternative Forms of Advocacy 289
27. 7 Leaving Guantánamo 313
28. Stuck in Limbo 313
29. Out but Not Free 329
30. Happy Endings? 341
31. 8 Guantánamo beyond Cuba: A Global Detention System outside the Law
32. Guantánamo Comes to America 361
33. Black Sites 379
34. Coda 399
35. Timeline: Guantánamo and the “War on Terror” 405
36. Contributors 413