George Clooney to Make Movie About Gitmo Detainee Salim Hamdan

Hamdan's sentence was the first to be delivered in a full war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, the American prison in Cuba. Proponents of Washington's "war on terror" considered the 66-month jail term too lenient; human rights activists protested that he had served his time -- he had already spent seven years in US custody. I'm surprised the Alternet repeated the "blackberry buddy" claim - which Clooney has emphatically denied saying - or being. Not knowing which Guantanamo camp Hamdan was held in, I have no idea what his treatment might have been like but the reflections of Murat Kurnaz on his own treatment - and that of fellow detainees would be a valuable reference. His book, "Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo" I was horrified not only by the treatment of the detainees, but by the way some of our... [read full story]