Customer Reviews:
 Now I know July 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am very much enjoying reading this book. Mahvish Khan gives the forbidding nature of Gitmo a human face, portraying the human sides of these faceless detainees and those working on their cases.
Spectacular book And a MUST read in an election year July 27, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
In this book My Guantanamo Diary the author shows why in an election year, we citizens have to know what our government is doing. Mahvish Khan is an American born lawyer, which I hope people remember.
She is not an enemy of the United States, but such a lover of the United States Constitution, which I wish more supporters of the Bush administration were. She even notes that when she first went to Guantanamo even she assumed she would be meeting terrorists.
The author also is a very positive person so please don't assume the book is all gloom and doom. As an American I found the book to be a wonderful insight into how far we have come since Washington was President, to a place I personally don't like.
The book will or should make you ask yourself if you were arrested, how long do you think you should be held without contact with a lawyer or visits from family? And the author also shares that those men who have been freed after six or more years of arrest, because they were not guilty, do not have hatred toward the American citizen. Would you be as gracious if you were in their shoes?
The book also reminded me that George Washington wrote in a March 24, 1784, letter to his aide Tench Tilghman, saying that Muslims should be hired. Thomas Jefferson owned and read the Quran. Muslims have been in America since the early 1700's.
Everyone in the US should read this July 9, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This well-written expose of Guantanamo Bay puts a human face on the prisoners that are incarcerated there. The shameful detention of 'enemy combatants' in miserable conditions by the US government, in some cases for years without a trial, needs to be better known.
My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me June 26, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
May the blessings of God always be with you. You have put your life at risk while working on this book to save the life of the Gitmo detainees. Not only have you opened up our eyes but our hearts as well. May this book be read by EVERYONE because the TRUTH must to be told. I shed many tears by reading this book... just imagine
how and what they went through EVERY single day....
My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me June 16, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
A MUST read book - An insightful, heartrendering, and beautiful piece of literture. I laughed, shed tears, vacilated between the shock of the governments torture methods and pride of the author's courage and determination to uphold the tenable principles of the United States Constitution.
The author allows readers to experience events, tribulations and personalities through her eyes, cultural knowledge and objectivity. I vicariously journeyed the route - Florida - Guantanamo -Afghanistan with Mavish talking to me.
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