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INSIDE THE WIRE.(Guantanamo Bay)

The New Yorker

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Will Gunn was on a training mission to Buenos Aires when he learned that he might be chosen as the lead defense counsel in the trials by military tribunal of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The military has placed approximately six hundred and fifty suspected war criminals, captured in connection with the war in Afghanistan, in custody at the American naval base in Cuba--the interrogation and detention center now officially known as Joint Task Force Guantanamo. Their ranks, and thus Gunn's potential clients, could include Osama bin Laden, if he is ever captured. "My first reaction was, Is somebody trying to torpedo my career?" Gunn, a colonel in the Air Force, recalled ...

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