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Five Years of My Life

Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo by Murat Kurnaz is a story of a man born, raised and living in Germany although he is Turkish. (Unlike the U.S. being born in Germany doesn't make you a citizen.  There you go Tea Baggers, run with it. But I digress.)  Anyhow, Murat was somewhat an average guy growing up as a German Turk.  In his teen and young adult life he was busy having fun and running around.  But once he met the girl whom he wanted to marry, he decided to reconnect with his Islamic faith and become a good Muslim.  Knowing his family would not approve, he and a friend planned and then left to study Islam in Pakistan.  Ordinarily that wouldn't have been a problem except they went in October of 2001, just as the U.S. began it's invasion of Afghanistan…  …more