The Guantanamo files: Classified files provide new insights in prisoners

WASHINGTON-A treasure trove of more than 700 secret military documents offers new and detailed accounts of men who have made time in the prison of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, as well as new insights into the evidence against 172 men up there still locked.

The US prison in Guantanamo Bay holds still 172 prisoners, most rated "high risk". This article is based on a huge treasure trove of secret government documents leaked last year for the anti-secrecy organization of WikiLeaks, and to the New York Times from a different source on condition of anonymity made available.Editors and journalists, who edited this article will choose you answer questions about the coverage of the material. Prayed a prisoner in the Guantanamo Bay prison outside his cell in 2007, in an area for the most compatible prisoners.

Military intelligence officials, in reviews of prisoners written from February 2002 until January 2009, its history evaluated and provided insights into the tensions between captors and prisoners. What started as a jury-rigged experiment after the terrorist attacks of 2001 now seems a permanent American institution, and the leaked files, show why setting of bare the patchwork and contradictory evidence, which would never have stand in many cases in criminal court or a military tribunal.

The documents record meticulously the prisoners ' Pocket litter "if it is collected: a Kabul bus ticket, fake passports and forged student ID, a receipt restaurant also a poem. You list the prisoners diseases - hepatitis, tuberculosis, gout and depression. You note their serial interrogations, enumerate - even after six or more years of relentless questioning - remaining "areas of potential use." Describe in mates' infractions - die-cutting waking, apart tear slippers, screaming about cell blocks. And the analysts try to strengthen, it years of the prisoners comments to a different data set the case for further detention.

The secret documents, the New York Times and several other news organizations, show that most of the remaining 172 prisoners as a "high risk" of posing a threat to the United States and their allies, if published without appropriate rehabilitation and oversight have rated. But they show that about a third of the 600 already transmitted also a greater number of prisoners who have - left Cuba on other countries - have been called "High risk" before they were released or handed over to the custody of other Governments.

The documents are largely silent - including sleep deprivation, of loops in stress positions and prolonged exposure to cold temperatures - about the use of harsh interrogation tactics at Guantánamo, moved the global condemnation. Several prisoners, but are as shown, make up false stories about subject to abuse.

The Government basic accusations against many detainees have long public and often from prisoners and their lawyers have been challenged. But the dossiers, prepared under the Bush administration a deeper look at the frightening, if flawed, intelligence, which has the Obama administration, also persuaded, that the prison can not easily be closed.

Prisoners who worried especially counterterrorism officials include some defendants, assassins vowed for Al Qaeda, activists for a cancelled suicide mission and prisoners to their interrogators that she would wreak revenge against America.

The military analysts files offer new information about the berüchtigsten their prisoners, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. At some point to March 2002 he ordered a former Baltimore resident, don suicide bomb vest and perform a "martyrdom" attack on Pervez Musharraf, then Pakistan's President, according to the documents. But as the man, Majid only a test Khan, the Pakistani mosque that he had said that Mr Musharraf would visit the assignment proved for his "willingness to die for the cause."

The files show the method of forecast years in the case of a false identity collect intelligence in war zones, or simple accident led to the police buildings innocent men. In May 2003, for example, included Afghan national army of prisoner 1051, an Afghan named Sharbat, close to the scene of a roadside bomb explosion that display documents. He denied involvement, saying that he was a shepherd. Guantanamo de Briefers and analysts agreed, citing its consistent history, his knowledge of animals and his ignorance of "simple military and political concepts," Beware of depending on its assessment. A "enemy combatants" explains still a military tribunal to him anyway, and he was not sent home until 2006.

Obama administration officials condemned the publication of classified documents, obtained last year by the anti-secrecy group of WikiLeaks, however, to the times from a different source. The officials pointed out, that an administration task force set up in January 2009 came the information in the prisoners reviews and in some cases checked at different conclusions. So they said, can the documents of the times published not a current view of the Government of prisoners at Guantanamo is.

See the results in the files:

?Switching 20th hijacker: the best documented case an abusive interrogation methods at Guantanamo survey was the coercive, end of 2002 and early 2003, by Mohammed Qahtani. A Saudi believes man 11 attacks to have been an intended participant in the Sept., Mr Qahtani was sexually humiliated like a dog, and forced to urinate on themselves restricted. His file says, "Although publicly shared entries claim that prisoner was subject to harsh interrogation methods in the early stages of detention," his confessions "appear to be true and are confirmed in the reports from other sources." But claims that it allegedly found made of at least 16 other prisoners have - especially in April and May 2003 - are cited in their files without any reservation.

Charlie Savage reported from Washington, and William Glaberson and Andrew W. lessons from New York. Scott Shane contributed reporting from Washington, and Benjamin Weiser and Andrei Scheinkman from New York.

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Libyan rebels advance; US drones will provide

A border crossing in the town of Wazen after a battle in the early morning, sent flight reported a small number of Libyan soldiers across the border, the official Tunisian news agency took control of the rebels in the Western mountains. The news agency said 13 of Libyan soldiers, including Colonel and two commanders, were arrested when a rebel spokesman in the eastern city of Benghazi claims that more than 100 had sought asylum.

The fighting in the mountains has escalated in the last two weeks, UN aid workers say that more than 14,000 Libyan refugees - many of them fled on the same of the Berber minority, which is widely used in the area - border, with more than 6,000 per day crossing recently a spokesman for the UN Human Rights Commission said.

While it is not clear that the rebels Wazen withstand, control of the Western region is their success of the first great leap in Colonel Qadhafi, as he crushed the riots which erupted in Tripoli and many other cities and towns of Libya when the uprising broke out two months ago. It opened it import the possibility of the rebels, aid or weapons and offers the first sign of a break of the blockade, which has laid over the Libyan civil war in the last few weeks.

In a move that appears to stop, that deadlock be directed Pentagon said Thursday that President Obama of armed predator had granted powers, drones against Colonel Qadhafi partially bypassed the air strikes by mingling with civilians and the use of unmarked vehicles.

The American military has the predator, a remote piloted aircraft equipped with Hellfire missiles, used to objectives in urban and rural areas in Afghanistan, to meet Pakistan, Iraq and Yemen.

Announcing the deployment, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates described the addition of armed robbers as "a modest contribution" Mission of the NATO attack. But Mr Obama seemed too complicated approval their deployment another sign of the gaps in the ability of NATO, extended carry out combat missions without further and significant American support.

These gaps are significant become, because the United States on 4 April, command of the Libya mission NATO transferred when the American military again reinforced a supporting role. Despite this movement, American planes are significant numbers of bombs, more than you like other countries in the Alliance.

In Misurata, the rebel held port where rebels for weeks for such weapons have pleaded to beat back a siege by Qadhafi forces, said a spokesman for rebel Thursday, that the recent air raids and help shows rebel fighters who take offensive had enabled. The spokesman, Mohamed, whose full Name for the protection of his family was denied, the rebels on Wednesday, said more than 100, the Qadhafi on Thursday soldiers and 51 killed when they also recorded 40 others. "People are celebrating in Misurata,", he said, talking about an Internet connection, because the most telephone service and electricity in the city was cut off.

Among other advances, he who had driven the rebels of away sniper Central Tripoli Avenue had terrorized civilians along the city said.? "There is a pattern of collapse under the Qadhafi troops in and around Misurata," he said.

A spokesman for the military said in the rebel Eastern Benghazi, Colonel Ahmed Bani stronghold, rebel, anti-Qaddafi repeatedly had attacked the Western crossing near Wazen fighter in the past to on Thursday. "This is us a supply line for Tunisia," he said and added that the rebels in Wazen with the leadership in Benghazi were communication.

So far, air strikes against the Qadhafi have NATO forces the rebels continue to control a handful of Eastern cities, the Western commercial port of Misurata, Benghazi and some reports according to the Western mountain towns of Nalut and Zintan enabled. But the Qadhafi forces have maintained a strict control of the Libyan capital Tripoli, and held a violent siege to Misurata and cities held other rebels and rebel leaders have complained in recent weeks bitterly about the relative lack of NATO air strikes.

During the most attention to the most important port cities of Benghazi and Misurata concentrated, has the Western mountainous region stretches from Wazen of to nearby Nalut and Zintan with resistance to Qadhafi simmered. Berbers have long rubbed which has sought to deny their status as a culturally different minority under the Qadhafi Government.

After rebels control of Benghazi on 20 February took over, he was resident of Nalut and Zintan others of Tripoli, Misurata, Zawiyah, Zawarah, Sabratha and other cities in take on the road to the burning of police stations and the headquarters of Colonel Qadhafi local "revolutionary committees." In the following weeks, however, his security forces again a firm grip on Tripoli and gradually of West Florida from other cities, so that Zintan and Misurata as the Western main centres of resistance.

Faras Kaya, a spokesman for United Nations Human Rights Commission, said that that many escape to the camp described the escalating confrontation in the mountains around Zintan and Nalut in the last two weeks, since lashed back towards thrown Qadhafi forces artillery in the cities and the rebels. "The Western mountain region in the State of siege for a month or so," said Mr. Kaya. "What clearly is that they have fled due to the increasing violence".

About a quarter of a million refugees have Libya in Tunisia in the last two months, fled he said. At the other main crossing in the vicinity of Mediterranean, most of which were run, he said foreign workers, but the 14,000 who have fled through Wazen were Libyan families.

The deployment of predators following weeks if rebels of a lack of support from NATO have complained to the United States handed over direction of air operations of NATO. Was announcing the addition of weapons, Mr Gates suggested that the United States reduce a gap in the arsenals of other the other Alliance members, fill out, the similar attack not have drones.

"The President said, where we have some unique features, he is willing to use those," said Mr Gates at a press conference of Pentagon, suggesting that the predators would provide "some precision ability."

David D. Kirkpatrick reported from Cairo and Thom Shanker from Washington. Rod Nordland contributed reporting from Benghazi, Libya, and Mona El Naggar from Cairo.

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Student MBA provide vocational guidance Services a new assignment

Illustration by Olimpia Zagnoli

By Oliver Staley

When the University of Chicago Booth School of Business first contacted Groupon in 2009, the school had no idea that startup, and then a year, would be later $ 4.75 billion. Booth career services Department has heard of students and former students coupon site and contacted the Director General Andrew Mason to plead for the hiring of graduates of business schools. This year, the company interviewed students of Booth and six other MBA programs for summer internships.

B-school graduates once were happy to get a job on Wall Street or the & S P 500 company. Today, a growing number are defining their views on the less conventional careers. Which join the startups, non-profit organizations and other employers who recruit traditionally on the campus of schools. Career services officers are networking spending more time and accompanying students on excursions to visit businesses. Many B-schools are hiring additional personnel dedicated to the identification of potential employers. "We must be much more proactive," explains J.J. Cutler, who manages Wharton School the University of Pennsylvania career services. "I need to have thousands and thousands of links with these small firms everywhere in the world."

The movement is led by students, said Cutler. "In this context is a reaction to the financial crisis, it is a change of generation, part of it is that they are much more diversified backgrounds."

Amit Koren, a student aged 29 at the booth, interned together on in the summer and he worked while he completed his MBA. He did not meet any of the large employers recruiting on the campus of last year because he wanted to work in a young company. "I was looking for a place where I could have an immediate impact and grow with the company," says Koren, who, before to start business school, worked in Group monitor, the firm of consultants from Cambridge (mass.), co-founded by Michael Porter management guru. "The opportunities are so much greater." You can get your hands dirty, you can learn much more. ?

Come September, Neeraja Bhavaraju, an old student of 29 years of the Dartmouth College-Tuck School of Business in Hanover, N.H., will begin to work in the offices of the FSG Boston, a non-profit corporation that works with charities and businesses on the responsibility of the construction company programs. Bhavaraju, who worked at the McKinsey before leaving for his MBA, says employment in a for-profit business is no longer a appealed to him. "I realized that doing this kind of work was not well enough for me," she said. "It was intellectually stimulating but filling does not for me.".

Wharton, where 250 companies recruiting on campus, has reorganized its Office of career of 25 people services; There are now six members of staff who give the floor to small employers. Cutler, explains: "we used to have to play a game and now we have to play two." The Tuck School at Dartmouth has staff stationed in San Francisco and Montevideo, Uruguay, to identify potential employers, on the West Coast and in Latin America. Booth built his outreach team to seven, two, since January 2009.

Business schools invest in career services because they want to continue to meet their graduates. Place any newly MBAs in the perfect job is "probably the greatest motivation to their satisfaction, which translates Alumni giving and participation on the road," explains Scott Shrum, Director of research for the admission of the MBA at Veritas Prep, a provider of prep GMAT test and admissions consulting services based at MalibuCalif.

Unlike large enterprises that hire dozens or even hundreds of business school graduates each year and make job six months before the start of the position, small businesses are often offer until just before the graduation. That creates anxiety for students waiting for startups hear while their classmates accept jobs in blue chip companies, says Rebecca Joffrey, Co-Director of the office of career services at the Tuck School of Business. "Must be a certain amount of tolerance at the risk of really pursue what they came to want to continue," explains Joffrey. "The activity surrounding the MBA recruitment is very strong and widespread."

Jacqueline a. Wilbur, Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management career development, see graduate chase employers rather that the reverse is a welcome change. "This is an unhealthy dynamics, where just because you are accepted to a certain set of schools, businesses come find you", explains Wilbur. "This is not how the world works."

GroupOn, which now has nearly 5,000 employees, has been besieged by requests for information from students, according to Halle Jensen, who heads MBA recruitment company based in Chicago. "There is a scarcity of opportunities such as Groupon, in the past two years" explained Jensen. "Students are excited."

The bottom line: B-schools placement offices are staffing until they work to develop relationships with employers who recruit traditionally MBAs.

Staley is a journalist for Bloomberg News.

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