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Andy Worthington

Worthington is an author and journalist. The Guantánamo Files, the first book to tell the stories of all the detainees, was published in November 2007. He previously wrote two books of British social history: Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion and The Battle of the Beanfield.

Standard Operating Procedure

[ filmreviews ]

Errol Morris's film about Abu Ghraib works well as a sordid and distressing chamber piece, but is not without faults.

Road from Ar Ramadi

[ bookreviews ]

A measured account of one soldier's moral journey.

Torture taxi

[ bookreviews ]

A well-told detective story about plane-spotters, CIA and extraordinary rendition.

The trials of Omar Khadr, Guantánamo's "child soldier"

[ politics - november 07 ]

"Dozens of children were held in Guantánamo, and, although few were treated as badly as Omar, only a handful were ever segregated from the prison's adult population, and treated with something close to appropriate care."