BY EARLY morning the damp heat was already rising around the courthouse, a drab, low building topped with radio masts high above Guantanamo Bay. Inside, everyone waited in silence: Captain Daniel O’Toole, of the US Navy, the “presiding officer”, wearing black robes and taking the place of a judge, and the defence and prosecution in the formal dress uniforms of the US Army, Navy and Air Force. Then the doors opened to reveal the defendant, Jabran Said bin al-Qahtani, a slight figure with wild black hair and 4in beard, a head shorter than the military police holding his arms. He was dressed in a tan tunic and cropped trousers, the uniform of the “medium-compliant detainee” at Guantanamo, America’s detention camp for its captives in the War on Terror, on the southeastern fringe of Cuba. He had evidently rejected the armfuls of blazers and slacks that Lieutenant-Commander Bryan Broyles, his Pentagon-appointed lawyer, had tentatively picked out for him at the Navy Exchange superstore...
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