About David Rose

David Rose is a writer and investigative journalist. His work appears in the Observer and Vanity Fair. Among his books are A Climate of Fear (1992) and In the Name of the Law (Vintage, 1996)

Articles by David Rose

Guantánamo: America's war on human rights

The military aircraft in which Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul sat chained to a bench, soaked in their own urine, ear-muffed, masked and unable to see, landed at the American airstrip at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on 14 January 2002. The two men, who had travelled to Pakistan from their homes in Britain five months earlier in order to attend Iqbal’s wedding, had already survived a massacre of prisoners by their original captors, the private army of the Afghan warlord Rashid Dostum.

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Niki Seth-Smith is a freelance journalist and co-editor of OurKingdom.

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