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FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE -- AN INNOCENT MAN IN GUANTANAMO

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by Murat Kurnaz
© 2007 Rowohlt Berlin Verlag GmbH, Berlin
English Language translation © 2006 by Jefferson Chase

To all the Guantanamo detainees and their families

"Do you know what the Germans did to the Jews?" he said. "That's exactly what we're going to do with you."

-- "Five Years of My Life," by Murat Kurnaz

Table of Contents:

Inside Cover
Foreword, by Patti Smith
Translator's Note
Chronology of Events
Map
Photographs

  1. Frankfurt Airport
  2. Peshawar, Pakistan
  3. Kandahar, Afghanistan
  4. Kusca, Turkey
  5. Guantanamo Bay, Camp X-Ray
  6. Bremen, Hemelingen
  7. Guantanamo Bay, Camp X-Ray
  8. Guantanamo Bay, Camp Delta
  9. Guantanamo Bay, Camp Echo
  10. Guantanamo Bay, Camp 4
  11. Ramstein Air Base, Germany
  12. Bremen, Hemelingen

Epilogue, by Baher Azmy