Read Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, And Kandahar by Moazzam Begg, Victoria Brittain Online

operatives seized him. From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In a fast-paced, harrowing narrative that's likely to become a flash point for the right and the left, Begg tells of his secret abduction by U.S. . A British Muslim of Pakistani descent, Begg grew up in Birmingham and excelled at school before becoming involved with Islamic political causes and later moving to Afghanistan to become a teacher. guard at Guantánamo, his tone is assured. In March 2004, Begg was released from Guantánamo under pressure from the British government, but over the objections of the Pentagon, which still considers him a potential terrorist. Whether Beg

Moazzam Begg was born and raised in Birmingham, England, where he established an Islamic bookstore and aided in relief efforts in Bosnia and Afghanistan. . He moved to Kabul with his family in 2001. Since his release he has returned to Birmingham, and speaks and lectures widely. Victoria Brittain is a journalist and a research associate at the London School of Economics, and the former foreign editor for The Guardian. With Gillian Slovo, she compiled the play Guantá

American Gulag? In my younger days I was enthralled with books by prisoners of the Soviet Gulag. Little could one imagine that one day there might be an American variation on that theme. It has been said that September 11th changed everything, it did indeed.One of the most amazing things about this gripping story is that the author does not harbor a grudge against Americans in general - amazing that he did not become what he was suspected of being. This is the source of how terrorism will grow, unjust and heavy handed treatment only breeds more of what it attempts to stop by coercion. Moazzam Begg Arrested for Uncovering Western Complicity in Rendition and Torture 'Sometimes knowing too much can be a curse'.This was the last Facebook post before Moazzam Begg, Outreach Director for CAGE, was arrested by West Midlands Police yesterday, in what will most certainly be one of their biggest PR disasters to date, in shâ Allâh.Moazzam has been campaigning for years to highlight the breaches of human rights, due process and rule of law that have characterised many western governments since the War [of] Terror began. As a result he has suffered much abuse and harassment by certain institutions within the Establishment, which . Mikel said Curiosity killed the cat!. Was ok, I was there and I don't recall any of that. But well Written

custody, nearly two of them in Guantánamo, before being released without charge in January of 2005.Enemy Combatant, written with respected UK journalist Victoria Brittain, is the wrenching narrative of Begg's detention, including his eighteen months in solitary confinement. The searing story of one man's years inside the notorious American prison—and his Kafkaesque struggle to clear his name."Under the hood I felt I couldn't breathe properly….Flashing lights—obviously from soldiers' cameras taking trophy pictures—came and went in front of me, despite the hood's darkness. A highly educated British Muslim, Moazzam Begg spent three years in U.S. From beside me a voice said in Arabic, 'Shall we pray, brother?' A guard came and screamed in my ear, 'Shut up, motherfucker, if you speak again I'll kill you.'"—from Enemy CombatantGuantánamo Bay,