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Five Years of My Life

An Innocent Man in Guantanamo

by Murat Kurnaz, Helmut Kuhn, Jefferson Chase and Patti Smith

Hardcover, 255 pages, St Martins Pr, List Price: $24.95 |

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An Innocent Man in Guantanamo
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A former prisoner at Guantanamo describes how, in October 2001, he was arrested by police during a visit to Pakistan, sold to U.S. forces, and imprisoned in Afghanistan and in Guantanamo, where he endured more than 1,600 days of torture, interrogation, and solitary confinement before being released with acknowledgement of his innocence. 30,000 first printing.

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'Five Years' Details Detention at Guantanamo

Murat Kurnaz says he spent five years being tortured and interrogated by U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay — even after intelligence determined that he had no terrorist ties. He discusses his memoir, Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo.

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