Camp X-Ray
The inmates of Camp X-Ray will not appreciate the comparison, but there is a large slice of Alice in Wonderland about their predicament. It is not just that they have fallen down a rabbit hole of their own making, where they find themselves held in conditions which breach the Geneva Convention’s recommendations for the treatment of prisoners-of-war. What brings an even more bizarre touch to their fate is Bush’s decision to mount a kind of show trial for six of their number before a specially convened military tribunal.
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