A review by leerazer
My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me by Mahvish Rukhsana Khan

3.0

Much more of a personal impressionistic account of Guantanamo than a comprehensive look at any cases or issues involved. The author is a young idealistic law student from an immigrant Afghan family who volunteered as an interpreter for the lawyers working with Afghans imprisoned on the base. She was convinced that the prisoners she met there were innocent, good men, and she clearly felt full sympathy with them and their stories. She may well be right, and other sources will also confirm that many of the inmates held there were far from being the "worst of the worst" hardcore terrorists that the Bush administration would have had us believe. But there is also not much here to disprove those who would say the inmates were trained to lie and successfully fooled a naive young student.

An interesting book for its personal perspective and passion, not one that would probably change a lot of minds, and not one very heavy on details of the cases - which is the main drawback to it my view.