The Road to Guantanamo (2006)

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The Road to Guantanamo (2006, G ...
by CinemaRian in CinemaRian Blog

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"Here is a scenario for you. You are a middle ranking US army officer, a Captain or Major. It is a month after 9/11. America has (justifiably) invaded Afghanistan in an attempt to overthrow the Taliban regime that aided Osama Bin Laden and others who wished to harm this country. You are allied with the Northern Alliance, who also opposes the Taliban. One day, after an air strike over an Al Qaeda area, the Northern Alliance has captured about fifty people over this region. Among them are three British citizens who left the UK a week after 9/11, flew to Pakistan, and from their crossed over the Afghanistan border. They passed through the two biggest cities, Kandahar and Kubul, and rode a van to this isolated Al Qaeda region out in the middle of nowhere. What do you do? I would detain and question them. The men, named Ruhul Ahmed, Asif Iqbul and Shafiq Rasul were later released after two years in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, apparently because they were innocent. Their s ... " [More]

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"I finally got to catch The Road to Guantanamo last night. This docu-drama was directed by Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, Wonderland and 9 Songs) and Mat Whitecross. The film tells the story of 3 young men from England (but of Pakistani descent) who find themselves in the middle of Kondoz, Afghanistan (a Taliban stronghold) in the midst o the American attachs in 2001. As a result, they spent years in the prisons of Sheberghan and Guantanamo and were subjected to most of the now infamous interrogation techniques. What I found most interesting about this film was the use of a wide range of story-telling elements. From reena " [More]

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