The General The Ordinary Man Who Challenged Guantanamo
On 11 September 2001, in a café in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed. He was appalled by the loss of innocent life. But.. Lire la suite
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On 11 September 2001,
in a café in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers
collapsed. He was appalled by the loss of innocent life. But he couldn't
possibly have predicted how much of his own life he too would lose
because of that day.
In a series of terrible
events, Ahmed was sold by the Pakistanis to the Americans in the
diplomatic lounge at Islamabad airport and spent five and a half years
in Guantanamo. There, he was beaten, tortured, humiliated, very nearly
destroyed.
But Ahmed did not give in. This very
ordinary, Moroccan-born London chef became a leader of men. Known by the
authorities as The General, he devised protests and resistance by any
means possible. As a result, he spent most of his time in solitary
confinement. But then, after all those years, Ahmed was freed, his
innocence admitted.
This is Ahmed's story. It
will make you rethink what it means to be in the wrong place at the
wrong time. It will also make you look anew at courage, survival,
justice and the War on Terror.
