Two Stories On Guantanamo Bay From The Times

In this Dec. 7, 2006, photo, reviewed by a U.S. military censors, a U.S. soldier keeps watch from a guard tower overlooking the Camp Delta prison at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. President Barack Obama began overhauling U.S. treatment of terror suspects, signing orders on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, to close the Guantanamo prison. AP File

Guantánamo Bay: The Inside Story -- Times Online

There’s a McDonald’s on the high street, suburban houses, rats the size of dogs, and 229 of the world’s most high-profile prisoners. Six months after President Obama declared that he would close it down, Naomi Wolf heads to Guantánamo Bay to see whether anything has changed.

Six months ago this week President Obama, on his second day in office, promised to close the Guantánamo detention camp within a year, and to undo the secretive and coercive detention and interrogation policies of George W. Bush. But has Obama been as good as his word?

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Photo: Moazzam Begg

I Was A Guantánamo Prisoner -- Times Online

Moazzam Begg his experiences as a detainee and his hopes for the future.

“I was living in Pakistan with my wife and children. We were working on a project to build schools for girls in Afghanistan. I was kidnapped at gunpoint in the middle of the night by the Pakistani intelligence service and the CIA, on January 31, 2002.

“I was taken to the US-run jail at Bagram [air force base], in Afghanistan. I was held in a communal cell. We weren’t allowed to walk, talk or get up without permission. If we did we were hooded and suspended from the ceiling for hours.

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