The food [at Guantánamo Bay] was delicious, the teaching was excellent, and [Naqibullah's] warders were kind. "Americans are good people, they were always friendly, I don't have anything against them," he said. "If my father didn't need me [in Afghanistan], I would want to live in America."
Asadullah is even more sure of this. "Americans are great people, better than anyone else," he said, when found at his elder brother's tiny fruit and nut shop in a muddy backstreet of Kabul. "Americans are polite and friendly when you speak to them. They are not rude like Afghans. If I could be anywhere, I would be in America. I would like to be a doctor, an engineer — or an American soldier."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1163436,00.html
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We only take hard core terrorists to Guantanamo Bay according to our leaders, so what is this all about?
Interesting how the author talks about how these young people now want to be like their captors (what is that called?)in such a positive way at the beginning of the story, waiting for the end to tell of the horrors they experienced.
Thank you for letting us know what is done to children and their families in our names.
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