Gitmo: A tropical vacation, two fruits and Harry Potter too?

[Bluebear]

Harry Potter has bewitched detainees at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, where tales of the young wizard and mysteries by Agatha Christie top the list of most popular books, a prison librarian said on Tuesday.

"Harry Potter is a popular title among some of the detainee population," said the librarian, a civilian contractor identified only as "Lorie" who works at the prison camp for foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

Lorie said the popularity of the best-selling Harry Potter books, which recount the adventures of a boy wizard as he triumphs over the powers of evil, was matched only by the prisoners' passion for Agatha Christie, some of whose murder mysteries are set in the Middle East.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050809/ts_nm/security_guantanamo_potter_dc&printer=1

[Inland]

It's the most popular of the allowed reading list.

I doubt these guys are given their choice of The Atlantic, Thomas Friedman's latest, or How to Speak English in 30 Days.

If it isn't a childrens' fantasy book or a halfassed mystery from fifty years' ago, they don't get it.

[Inland]

1. It's the most popular of the allowed reading list.

I doubt these guys are given their choice of The Atlantic, Thomas Friedman's latest, or How to Speak English in 30 Days.

If it isn't a childrens' fantasy book or a halfassed mystery from fifty years' ago, they don't get it.

[Bluebear]

2. Next they'll be saying they have a "modern, fully-stocked" library nt