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It is almost two years

since the Guantanamo prison camp opened.

Its purpose is to hold people seized in the 'war on terror'

and defined by the Bush administration as enemy combatants

- though many appear to have been bystanders to the conflict.

Images of Camp Delta's orange-jumpsuited, manacled

detainees have provoked international outrage.

But the real horror they face isn't physical hardship,

it is the threat of infinite confinement,

without trial or access to legal representation.

James Meek has spent the past month talking

to former inmates and some of those involved

in operating the Pentagon's Kafkaesque justice system.

He has built an unprecedented picture of life on the base,

which we present in this special issue

People the law forgot, G, sub, 26.6.2004,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1098604,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

It has been just about two years

since Michael Barrymore stood on a stage.

A glimpse of the truth, O, Review, p. 1, 29.12.2002.

 

 

 

 

 

He points out that it is only two days since McDonald's,

bete noire of the anti-globalisation movement,

issued a profit warning,

its seventh in the past two years.

Power to the people, GE Review, p. 4, 20.12.2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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