Guantanamo memoirs prove bestsellers

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Page last updated at 18:27 GMT, Monday, 23 February 2009
By Dawood Azami
BBC Pashto service

... Guantanamo literature, produced by a number of former inmates, is making it harder for the US to claw back lost ground in their battle to win "hearts and minds".

The inmates have been publishing a record of what they say they endured during their detention in the notorious US detention facility in Cuba.

Several books written in Pashto have become bestsellers. All have one thing in common - the alleged "cruelty", "savagery" and "inhumane treatment " by the Americans.

One such book, originally written in Pashto, is by Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the former Taleban ambassador to Pakistan who spent more than three years imprisoned at Guantanamo. It is due to be published in English this year ...

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