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by Karen Greenberg

ISBN: 019975411X
Author: Karen Greenberg
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (September 27, 2010)
Pages: 284
Category: Humanities
Subcategory: Other
Rating: 4.8
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In an attempt to look beyond the camera flashes, sound bits, and video clips, Karen Greenberg's "The Least Worst Place covers the oft forgotten humanity of Guantanamo Bay.

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-Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower. Greenberg has written an important and compelling work that others will turn to fruitfully in writing the full history of Guantanamo. -The Washington Post Book World.

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Home Browse Books Book details, The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100. The prisoner’s cry pierced through the hot Caribbean air. It was not the first time that such a shriek had roused the rest of the detainees from their daily lethargy

Home Browse Books Book details, The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100. The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days. It was not the first time that such a shriek had roused the rest of the detainees from their daily lethargy. But this time it brought them to their feet and unleashed a flurry of noise, as they pounded the cement floors and rattled the wire mesh of their cells. An invisible force unsettled the stillness of the island.

Greenberg, one of America's leading experts on the Bush Administration's policies on terrorism, tells the story through a group of career officers who tried-and ultimately failed-to stymie the Pentagon's desire to implement harsh new policies in Guantanamo and bypass the Geneva Conventions.

Karen Greenberg tells the story of how Guantanamo went from a drowsy, tropical, and nearly forgotten .

Karen Greenberg tells the story of how Guantanamo went from a drowsy, tropical, and nearly forgotten naval base to an infamous symbol of America’s debasement. Or rather, she tells what happened during the first 100 days and leaves the rest to imaginations already damaged by half a decade of degrading images.

But as Karen Greenberg's chronicle of the first 100 days of Guantanamo shows, even at this early juncture there .

But as Karen Greenberg's chronicle of the first 100 days of Guantanamo shows, even at this early juncture there was a better way. The Least Worst Place, which at times reads almost as an oral history told largely through the eyes of officers on the ground, tells of the transformation of a sleepy . military base into a detention camp that would come to house what the Bush administration presented as the world's most fearsome terrorists. By the fall of 2001, . troops in Afghanistan had captured scores of prisoners, who were being held in ad hoc detention facilities.

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Named one of the Washington Post Book World's Best Books of 2009, The Least Worst Place offers a gripping narrative account of the first one hundred days of Guantanamo. Greenberg, one of America's leading experts on the Bush Administration's policies on terrorism, tells the story through a group of career officers who tried-and ultimately failed-to stymie the Pentagon's desire to implement harsh new policies in Guantanamo and bypass the Geneva Conventions. Peopled with genuine heroes and villains, this narrative of the earliest days of the post-9/11 era centers on the conflicts between Gitmo-based Marine officers intent on upholding the Geneva Accords and an intelligence unit set up under the Pentagon's aegis. The latter ultimately won out, replacing transparency with secrecy, military protocol with violations of basic operation procedures, and humane and legal detainee treatment with harsh interrogation methods and torture. Greenberg's riveting account puts a human face on this little-known story, revealing how America first lost its moral bearings in the wake of 9/11.

Comments:

Zacki

VERY INTERESTING AND INSIGHTFUL AS IT "CAPTURES THE MOMENT" IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING 9/11.....EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE REMINDED OF THE CONFUSION, CONCERENS AND UNCERTAINTY ABOUT HOW TO DEAL WITH A VITUALLY UNPRECEDENTED NATIONAL SECURITY CRISIS OF ENORMOUS PROPORTIONS...."LEAST-WORST PLACE"
GOES A LONG WAY TOWARDS ACCOMPLISHING THAT.....EVERYONE EXPRESSING A VIEW TODAY ABOUT WHAT WAS DONE BACK THEN SHOULD INVEST A FEW HOURS IN FIRST READING THIS UNIQUE BOOK.....WELL DONE

Shakanos

For those interested in the history of Guantanamo, this book is a must-read. The author gets a variety of interesting insights from the first commander of Guantanamo and his key staff assistants.

I recommend this book and "Terror Courts" by Jess Bravin to get a good understanding of how the detention center at Guantanamo came to be.

zmejka

The book is a representation of how Guantanamo Bay became ground zero for the war on Terrorism.

Niwield

The creation of Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo, was in haste. There was no administrative consensus as to the status of detainees, and hence no standard for how they were to be treated while in detention. Soldiers trained to guard the camp, and contractors employed to build it, were advised only that the detainees would be "the worst of the worst"--hardened Taleban/al-Qaida terrorists, with totally fanatical zeal to kill.

After the logistical achievement of building a maximum security detention center in so little time (2 months) the first detainees arrived from Bagram AFB, Afghanistan: in most cases the staff at Camp X-Ray knew nothing about them: in most cases, even their language was a mystery (few spoke Arabic). The circumstances of their capture or their personal effects were unknown to anyone, and the Pentagon refused to support any policy measures that would pin down their legal status. The staff initially sought to create a detention facility that would comply with the Geneva Conventions and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

After the first few months, the priorities of the Guantanamo Base were changed. Initially left on its own, in legal and administrative limbo, the local staff had struggled to find the appropriate balance of control and humane treatment for prisoners. In March '02, however, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld took a direct interest in the center and its ability to validate his narrative of the Global War on Terror. At all times, officers in the chain of command were eager to prove their usefulness to the nation by jumping through whatever hoops Rumsfeld held out.

Chinon

This is a story about Military men and women who tried to make the best out of a bad situation. This is also the story of a Government trying to get information from detainees that may or may not have had any useful information on terrorist plots in the wake of 9/11. This is the story of men who tried to uphold the Geneva Convention only to find out the people high up in Government had a very different idea of how Guantanamo should be run.

The Author Karen Greenberg details the trials and tribulations behind Guantanamo and how it came to be. Guantanamo became Guantanamo because the military didn't want to house the "detainees" on American or foreign soil because there would be some non military oversight and the Government wanted to conduct interrogations and by free of oversight. Guantanamo is unique because of its location and the fact that there would be no oversight by the Cuban Government. When they were trying to figure out where to house this detainee's Guantanamo in the beginning was an after thought

Greenberg discusses what the military went through to convert Guantanamo from nothing to a make shift detention center in a short amount of time. Getting the right people in place for this operation, making sure that at least the bare essentials would be available, food, clothing, housing, dealing with language, social and religious barriers etc. for not only the hundreds of incoming soldiers but the detainee's as well. This was a monumental operation.

Greenberg also details what life was like at Guantanamo for the detainee's and the military men and women working there in the early days of the operation. She discusses how several different legal barriers where overcome. Greenberg describes how the decisions were made on the ground that conflicted with decisions made by people in Washington and who was involved in those decisions.

Greenberg interviewed a lot of people that were on the ground at Guantanamo in the beginning. Her research for Guantanamo the first 100 days is extensive. Everything she details in the book has a time line to help the reader understand the sequence of events and the decision making behind those events.

Greenberg does an excellent job of presenting the subject matter in an unbiased way. Guantanamo the first one hundred days is an excellent book; it really details the confusion within the Government as to how to deal with the detainee's. Very thoroughly researched and well worth the price.

Silverbrew

Unless you've been especially bad, stupid or unfortunate, The Least Worst Place is about as close as you'll ever get to the inside of Guantanamo...or really, to the inside workings of how it came about and why it is as it is (or, we hope, soon, was). The Gitmo phenomenon is neither as evil nor as patriotic as many people assume. It was the center of a multifaceted tug-o-war involving people interested in defense against terrorism, upholding U.S. and international law, and political exigency. Greenberg's impressively comprehensive research looks at all the angles and all the people involved. Her research went deeply enough and personally enough for her to be qualified to start sentences with phrases such as "He felt that...," "He was worried about..., and "He suspected that...." In other words, she didn't just write about policy decisions. She wrote about the people behind the decisions and the efforts to resist certain decisions. I'd rate this book 5 stars except that I reserve that highest praise for writing that goes beyond clear presentation of content to expression in exceptional sentences and style. But if you're just looking for information about the politics beyond Guantanamo, The Least Worst Place is the most best place to find it.