The New York Times this morning publishes a good profile of former Guantanmo Bay detainee Muhammad Saad Iqbal, whose story is well told by three Times reporters. It's worth reading.
Unfortunately, the Times suggests, typically, it's the first to surface such a story. Here's the offending paragraph:
"But the full stories of individual detainees like Mr. Iqbal are only now emerging after years in which they were shuttled around the globe under the Bush administration’s system of extraordinary rendition, which used foreign countries to interrogate and detain terrorism suspects in sites beyond the reach of American courts."
That's true, if "now" encompasses anytime in the last year. McClatchy's Tom Lasseter, with help from Matthew Schofield, profiled 66 individual detainees in a groundbreaking series we ran last June. You can see the full project at www.mcclatchydc.com/detainees/.
You can find any of the profiles of the individual former detainees by clicking on his picture on the flash file labeled "Detainee Database" or clicking on the Database: Read 66 detainee profiles line at the top of the page. Be sure to watch the video too.
Think we're being sensitive? Guilty.
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