Every American should know how our government has ruined the lives of innocent people.

One of the grimmest chapters in American history, and there's stiff competition, unfortunately: Abu Gharib/Guantanamo, when one of the most powerful countries on the planet made the unwise and horrific decision to round up a bunch of people, few of them actually terrorists, as it turned out, and try to torture them into confessing they were members of Al-Qaeda and trying to get intel from them. As we knew then and now: Useless, except causing rage and more terrorism everywhere. In the process of...

4.5 Stars!“YOU’RE UNDER ARREST! YOU’RE IN THE CUSTODY OF THE U.S. ARMY! DON’T TALK, DON’T MOVE OR WE’LL SHOOT YOU!”OK quiz time, are you ready?...See if you can name the names on the list of US soldiers and governmental employees who have stood trial and been convicted in relation to the illegal capture, wrongful imprisonment, long term abuse, torture and killings of prisoners in Guantanamo?...Only kidding, don’t be silly this is America we are talking about, and those laws only apply to the oth...

All the allegations in here are difficult to digest and accept, but it is necessary to witness the injustices committed by the U.S. government in the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. Why is this place still open?

What a horrific mess of a the true story of an impoverished, innocent kid (14) sold as a "terrorist" to the US government and imprisoned in Gitmo for 8 years. Once released, his saga continues--there are no happy endings here.I think this story was important, and the telling of it was interesting, but there were parts that felt too compressed. I also recognize that it's an ongoing life/story, it's messy, and it's hard to select what to include and what to leave. I think the afterward was toughes...

This is a story that makes you angry, sad, and astonished all at the same time. Shocking. Very well told.

Ugh. This book makes me sad to be a citizen of the United States. The blatant disregard for fact during the pursuit of some sort of cowboy justice is heartbreaking. Mohammed El-Gharani was a kid trying to make a future for himself when he leaves Saudi Arabia for Pakistan to study English and IT. Then September 11, 2001 happened and any brown skinned boy was automatically thought to be a terrorist. Pakistan sold Mohammed to the US government and the US government tried for over eight years to cla...

Two graphic novels consisting of biographies from Guantanamo, have added more to my knowledge of the prison's horrors. The Guantanamo Kid goes beyond Mohammed el-Gharani's release from Gitmo to clearly show that realese from Guantanamo is never freedom.El-Gharani was a young teen in Medina in Saudi Arabia when he and a friend were enterprising enough to come up with a way to better themselves. 14 year old Mohammed would travel to Pakistan where he could learn English and IT then return in 6 mont...

Mohammed El-Gharani was born in Chad. When he was very young, his family moved to Medina in Saudi Arabia, partly to be with his grandparents, who already lived there. In 2001, he travelled to Pakistan to spend six months learning English, hoping it would help him get a job repairing computers. After 9/11, he was arrested by the Pakistan authorities--who were rounding up many foreign nationals--and handed over to the Americans as a suspected terrorist. He was barely 14. He then spent the next eig...

Required reading. No matter how much you know about what happened (is happening) at Guantanamo, you must read Mohamed El-Gharani’s story. I found it so engrossing that I read it in two short spurts. It’s hard to believe this kind of torture is possible in our modern era, that mistakes so gigantic (like thinking a 13 year old was a member of al-Quaeda) are allowed to perpetuate a false narrative. Mohammed’s life in West Africa was also very eye opening for me- always hustling to make a living, on...

As all who told their stories from GTMO, this book give an important and at the same time horrific account of what one of the most racist projects in recent times is and what consequences and effects it has for both indviduals and also the world. The story of Mohammed El-Gharani is a testimony of how the logics of Islamophobia work; here is a kid that gets sold into the hands of Americans, then tortured, humilated and robbed of his youth only to be released into a world were the stigma of having...

Horrifying, sad, and shameful story about Mohammed El-Gharani, one of the youngest detainees at Guantanamo. He was born in Saudi Arabia to Chadian parents. The Saudis wouldn't allow him to go to school since he was not a native in their eyes, so as a teenager, he went to Pakistan to study computers. Then 9/11 happened. The U.S. was looking for suspects. The Pakistanis rounded up "suspects," including Mohammed El-Gharani, and sold them to the U.S. He was 14. He was in Guantanamo for eight years,

After the 9/11 attacks, at the age of 14, Mohammed El-Gharani was arrested, labelled a terrorist, sold to the American’s by Pakistan and transported to Guantánamo Bay prison camp indefinitely. He was one of the youngest ever to be held prisoner there and it took eight years for his innocence to be recognised and he was released - all for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.Guantánamo Kid tells the story of Mohammed El-Gharani's experiences of life in the camp, from daily torture and inter...

Another book that left me wondering what’s going on? Who makes these policies? How can anyone justify treating people, innocent people, as Tubiana explains, as less than the trash that gets dumped everyday? I finished this with a mass of mixed emotions - anger and lots of it, sadness, and shame at how wrong my country has gone.

There is this quote by Abraham Lincoln: “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”, which is the ultimate, most beautiful thought concerning one's enemies and how to deal with them.Sadly, the opposite is also true, one can make enemies of people that could be our friends by treating them as if they were our enemies from the get-go.Mohammed El-Gharani is a clear example of this.Abducted as a child for being a terrorist, part of the 9/11 group of idiots, and placed in Guantanamo Ba...

Well narrated, and illustrated.

Young Mohammed El-Gharani is in the wrong place at the wrong time when he’s detained and sold to the American government. The 14-year-old was in Pakistan trying to go to school, which he didn’t have access to as a Chadian in Saudi Arabia. He then spends seven years captive in Guantánamo Bay, interrogated and tortured by American agents who refuse to accept his innocence and insist he’s a member of Al-Qaida, which he’s never even heard of. Guantánamo Kid tells the story of one of the youngest det...

Story of resistance from inside the imfamous Guantanamo prison, America's own circle of hell. El-Gharani's story needs to be seen & heard in the u.s. because the actual identities of the real people imprisoned in guantanamo are forgotten or don't warrant a mention in American news media & official pronouncements. This story also highlights that even in the national security establishment's own terms, the idea that the USA needs an island prison to keep all the baddest guys (and keep them out of

This is a graphic novel that explores what lead up to people being imprisoned in Guantanamo after the September 11th attacks. This is the true story of a young man who was falsely imprisoned and what life was like for him during the 6 years of his imprisonment. When Mohammed El-Gharani was 14 years old, he was looking for a way to make a better life for himself and his family. He left his new home in Saudi Arabia to study English in Pakistan. In order to leave the country, he had to change his n...