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Harry Potter popular with Guantanamo detainees
ABC.net.au ^ | August 9, 2005 | Staff reporter

Posted on 08/08/2005 1:56:01 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi

Harry Potter popular with Guantanamo detainees: report

Books about boy wizard Harry Potter have become favourite reading material among Islamic terror suspects at the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Quoting a librarian working at the centre, The Washington Times newspaper says JK Rowling's tales about the boy and the school of wizardry are on top of the request list for the camp's 520 Al Qaeda and Taliban suspects, followed by Agatha Christie novels.

"We've got a few who are kind of hooked on it. A couple have asked if they can see the movie," the librarian identified only as Lori is quoted by The Times as saying.

Lori said she is compiling a list to provide to various law-makers in Washington, who recently visited the prison at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay as part of a congressional delegation investigating accusations of torture, according to the report.

A US military investigation last month concluded that no torture has taken place since the prison opened in early 2002. The Times said the Guantanamo library also has drawn interest because of a separate investigation into how guards handle the Koran, which is given to any prisoner who requests it under Pentagon policy.

The investigation found five cases of mishandling the sacred book, but no evidence that personnel flushed a copy down a toilet.

Australian David Hicks has been held at Guantanamo Bay for almost four years.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gitmo; guantanamo; pederasty; potter
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Harry Potter Aur Azkaban Ka Qaidi

41 posted on 08/08/2005 3:35:11 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

I thought Rumsfeld cooked up some "torture" where he'd have a detainee tied to a chair while some scantly dressed female soldier read the book to him.


42 posted on 08/08/2005 3:36:59 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
So it's fantasy fiction film they want? I say....

...Give them ZARDOZ!



43 posted on 08/08/2005 3:42:25 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
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To: The Red Zone

I concur- C. S. Lewis would be a superb choice for them to read. Let them start out with the Screwtape Letters...

Sometimes I just can't grasp the irony of the way they seem to revel in our culture...and despise us all at once.


44 posted on 08/08/2005 3:45:37 PM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve)
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To: usurper

When this story gets out there will probably be more riots in Afghanistan.


45 posted on 08/08/2005 3:50:48 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: thoughtomator

"We shouldn't be giving them anything to read that wasn't penned by Thomas Aquinas."

Hope they keep a copy. That's all the toilet paper they will have when they get sent back to the Kabul Hyatt.


46 posted on 08/08/2005 4:00:58 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liberal Talking Point - Bush = Hitler ... Republican Talking Point - Let the Liberals Talk)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

> Hermione is an excellent example of the proper role of women in society.

God, I wish I had Hermione to help me get through school.


47 posted on 08/08/2005 4:07:14 PM PDT by cloud8
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To: Joe 6-pack

Sean Connery will never live that getup down. ;)


48 posted on 08/08/2005 4:13:01 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Democracy...will be revengeful, bloody, and cruel." -- John Adams)
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To: AppyPappy

I think that they may be more apt to sympathize with Harry and think that we are Voldemort.


49 posted on 08/08/2005 5:23:36 PM PDT by saveliberty (Those who forget how Congress can waste your money are doomed to supply it with even more)
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To: Joe 6-pack
...Give them ZARDOZ!

No! There are limits, even for Islamic terrorist scum.
50 posted on 08/08/2005 5:32:27 PM PDT by wolfpat (dum vivimus, vivamus)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

I think the master plan is to take them up to the current book and then get on the loudspeaker and reveal the big secret. "Oh, did you want to read that for yourselves? Sorry!"


51 posted on 08/08/2005 10:19:20 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: retrokitten
Always thought it'd be "Malfoy" ended up in Guantanamo.
52 posted on 08/09/2005 2:07:01 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: HungarianGypsy

Maybe the "torture" backfired. Sounds as if they might have developed a taste for HP that way! They surely weren't reading those books (or any others except for the Q'uran) in their previous lives.


53 posted on 08/09/2005 5:06:06 AM PDT by maryz
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

I'd support either shipping a few Dementors down to gitmo, or shipping the whole lot of them to Azkaban.


54 posted on 08/09/2005 5:23:57 AM PDT by Malacoda (*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ! *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*)
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