Worthington, Andy - short clip - UncoveringtheTruth

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	(soft erasing sound)	0:01
-	The Bush Administration said they were captured	0:02
	on the battlefield, no one was captured on the battlefield.	0:04
	They were captured for the most part by	0:07
	the US's Afghanistan of Pakistani allies	0:10
	or they were captured in what mostly appeared	0:13
	to be chronically inept raids on houses in Pakistan.	0:16
	But it was important for me to work	0:23
	in trying to work out who they were.	0:26
	So, you know, their voices would come through	0:27
	sometimes in the transcripts.	0:29
	It was amazing that in some cases	0:30
	it was almost like you could hear them	0:34
	even when they were translated.	0:35
	Even with all these mistakes that would have occurred	0:37
	in the translation the whole clunking	0:41
	idiotic system of these reviews	0:44
	which was only intended to rubber stamp	0:46
	their prior designation as enemy combatants	0:48
	it was not meant to be about justice.	0:51
	But sometimes you could really hear the people.	0:52
	But it was important to me not just to convey	0:54
	who they were if I could but to work out the statistics.	0:58
	If these people weren't the worst of the worst	1:03
	captured on a battlefield then who were they?	1:05
	So, you know, that nearly half of them	1:07
	were captured crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan	1:09
	at the end of 2001.	1:12
	A much smaller number actually were captured	1:14
	in Afghanistan in various places	1:17
	and then these house raids like I said	1:20
	in Pakistan primarily.	1:22
	And then 40 or so prisoners	1:24
	who had been through the Black Sites	1:27
	and had come to Guantanamo through that route.	1:29

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Title:

Worthington, Andy - short clip - UncoveringtheTruth

Date:

December 11, 2016

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Worthington, Andy

Role:

Journalist

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Investigative Journalist and Author
Andy Worthington, male, age 53, a British historian and investigative journalist, is the author of "The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of 759 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison," "The Complete Guantanamo Files," and co-director of the documentary "Outside the Law: Stories of Guantanamo."
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

Subject:

United Kingdom

Format:

oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

1:26:22

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Witness to Guantanamo

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Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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