Book contents
- Leaving Guantanamo
- Leaving Guantanamo
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Long Journey beyond the Rule of Law
- 2 Why Should Kuwait Be Different?
- 3 Strategizing in a New World: Navigating the New Paradigm
- 4 The Rules of the Road: The Lower Courts Define a Narrow Path
- 5 Twelve Men
- 6 The Final Four: Habeas Hearings for the Last Four Kuwaiti Detainees
- 7 The US Government Re-engages
- 8 The First Periodic Review Board
- 9 And Then There Was One
- 10 Lessons Learned
- Notes
- Index
Book contents
- Leaving Guantanamo
- Leaving Guantanamo
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Long Journey beyond the Rule of Law
- 2 Why Should Kuwait Be Different?
- 3 Strategizing in a New World: Navigating the New Paradigm
- 4 The Rules of the Road: The Lower Courts Define a Narrow Path
- 5 Twelve Men
- 6 The Final Four: Habeas Hearings for the Last Four Kuwaiti Detainees
- 7 The US Government Re-engages
- 8 The First Periodic Review Board
- 9 And Then There Was One
- 10 Lessons Learned
- Notes
- Index
Summary
The introduction presents the background to the writing of the book. The author is an experienced Guantanamo lawyer who represented many detainees, including the last two Kuwaiti detainees, and was asked by Kuwaiti colleagues and friends to tell the stories of the twelve Kuwaiti detainees their lives before Guantanamo, how they were captured, their torture and treatment at Guantanamo, how they came to be released, and how they have tried to rebuild their lives after their long ordeals. The Core Team is introduced, a Kuwaiti lawyer, Abdul Rahaman Al Haroun, an American lawyer, William Brown, both based in Kuwait, and their colleague in Washington, Marcia Newell. These three strategized and fought every day for fourteen years until the last of the Kuwaitis was released.
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- Leaving GuantanamoHow One Country Brought its Men Home from the Forever Prison, pp. 1 - 5Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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