In a Guantanamo whitewash article that appears on the Pentagon website, the following nugget of information is offered --
Maggie, the chief librarian, said that books in the Harry Potter series translated into Arabic are among the most-requested items.
Which is somehow meant to excuse the fact that the detentions are indefinite and that the detainees have no habeas corpus rights: no external oversight of the Combatant Status Review tribunals which declare them to be enemy combatants, and the ever-receding prospect of trials that would be rigged against them anyway, the earlier tribunals having already judged them to be terrorists.
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