 Welcome to the Inside Gitmo official website
This website is designed as a companion resource for my new book Inside Gitmo: The True Story Behind the Myths of Guantanamo Bay, published by Harper Collins. It contains continually-updated news and information designed for researchers and anyone curious about Guantanamo Bay issues -- including many topics that have not been prominently reported on by the many media outlets publishing material on Gitmo.
The intent is to enhance transparency on a place, a subject, and an issue that has been far too long wrapped in mystery, confusion, and mythology. The purpose of the book supported by extensive personal and primary source research has been to clarify some of the more widespread misconceptions of Guantanamo and about the people who serve there and the detainees themselves.
With a subject as emotionally laden and poorly reported as Guantanamo, we think it necessary to provide readers and researchers with essential, comprehensive information. As a consequence, sources here are included regardless of agenda. You will find material from the Departments of Defense and Justice as well as from vehement Guantanamo opponents like Cage Prisoners and Center for Constitutional Rights.
On this site you will be able to find access to every document cited in the book as well as additional references and some added post-publication. We are doing our best to make this an apolitical, comprehensive site. If visitors have additional information or other sources that they think ought to be added, please contact us and we will consider your recommendations.
In addition, Google news retrieval services bring up current references to issues surrounding the detention facility. These are added and archived for future researchers. Resources you will also find here:
- Links to all source materials and articles mentioned in the endnotes of my Inside Gitmo book, including government reports, newspaper articles, videos, press releases, books, and more. These links will be arranged by chapter and endnote number just as they appear in the book.
- My very frequently updated "daily" blog on Guantanamo related issues and news reports (I'll shoot for daily entries yet, in reality, will not be able to blog on travel days or weekends).
- Photographs from my trips to the facility that could not be included in the book due to length contraints.
- Web site and Internet material links, posts, and information from Guantanamo-related sources.
- Articles and reports by the author and other writers, from major news sources, magazines, television, and newspapers are here for search.
- Videos concerning Guantanamo (see selections at the right).
- Tips and tutorials for reporters, researchers, and students reporting on Guantanamo Bay topics.
- Original special features related to various Guantanamo issues and developments.
- Sign up for an interactive, email-based discussion group to serve as a platform for informal yet reasoned discourse amongst reporters, lawmakers, students, analysts, and anyone else interested further exploring Guantanamo issues today (see the box below).
Please keep in mind that this website is also under construction and not all features will be complete until the book is available in bookstores on January 27th 2009. Your comments, suggestions, and questions are always welcome, and I will strive to respond promptly. If you would like to publicly respond to any of the materials provided on this website, or contribute your own previously unpublished original articles, op-eds, or reports then please email me at gordon@colonelgordon.com
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Join the Inside Gitmo discussion group
The Inside Gitmo email-based discussion group on Guantanamo's detention facility is intended to encourage rational, civil discussion of the myriad issues and problems associated with the facility, the detainees, and the staff.
Note that in the coming months I will be participating in dozens of radio shows across the country, and asked to speak on Guantanamo topics in a variety of different venues.
Rather than operating in a vacuum, the questions, comments, thoughts and exchanges from a wide variety of different people will enrich my perspectives and understanding of what others think and believe about Guantanamo.
Journalists, lawmakers, analysts, students, law enforcement professionals, and foreign affairs experts are encouraged to join.
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 "I've also been 'inside GITMO,' and Cucullu's riveting account shows why we've been safer with it — and why we may soon regret being without it."— Monica Crowley, host of the Monica Crowley Show and author of Nixon in Winter
 "Our new president should read it — twice — and take its truth-telling to heart." — Ralph Peters, columnist and author of Looking For Trouble
 "Every relevant military and civilian official should give Cucullu's analysis a fair hearing." — Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of An Autumn of War
 "An explosive expos of what's really been happening - 'inside the wire' at Guantanamo. Gordon Cucullu - with his Special Forces background, thorough research and extensive visits to Gitmo - knows more about the now-infamous detention facility than any 'outsider.' This book is a must-read for all who care about how we protect ourselves from those who are dying to kill us." — Oliver North, LtCol USMC (Ret.), host of War Stories on FOX News Channel & NYT bestselling author of American Heroes in the Fight Against Radical Islam
 "Inside Gitmo is a book of incalculable importance. It lays bare the myths and the stakes involved in the campaign to shut down a facility that any objective reader must conclude is vital to our national security. Every policy-maker in Washington and every citizen across America should study this books brilliant first-hand reporting and its alarming findings." — Frank Gaffney, Jr, President, Center for Security Policy and author of War Footing
 "Gordon Cucullu has written a lively work of history that fulfills its promise to explode 'the myths of Guantanamo Bay.' Anyone who wants to speak authoritatively about the Bush administration's detainee policies has to read this book." — Douglas J. Feith, senior fellow, Hudson Institute, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and author of War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
The "Living Book" Concept
The "Living Book" Concept
This companion web site to Inside Gitmo was conceived and executed by Avery Johnson in collaboration with Chuck Martin. As a highly skilled, experienced researcher, Avery imposes strict demands on her work and that of author's with whom she works. Every stated fact must be backed by hard documentation. Hence readers find 524 citations in Inside Gitmo from a multiplicity of sources. Avery took that as "a good start."
Her concept - that you can interact with on these pages - is that with an issue as dynamic and multi-faceted as Guantanamo is too large to be captured only in a work of print. In order to complement and supplement the final work so that readers may continue to be apprised of developments on this critical subject and dig deeper into subjects that interest them, it is necessary and valuable to take advantage of technology.
Illustrative of this concept is that this site functions as a repository for all original documents used in the book as well as providing additional sources for continued research into the subject. For readers seeking context for specific passages referenced in the book, the site provides access to the original report, news article, book, or other source quoted. By so doing we are able to circumvent necessary space limitations in print by augmenting the book with electronic back-up.
Additionally, the site goes where print cannot: it provides an email based discussion group, videos, updated news articles, a blog, podcasts, and other resources. It highlights new developments, steers readers to newly published works, and offers visitors the opportunity to purchase relevant works from the site.
I think that this concept - a continually updated, vibrant companion website for a published book with complete references included - ought to be the new gold standard in publishing and strongly urge new and proven writers and authors to advantage themselves of these services.
Avery Johnson and her team can be contacted at avery.j@comcast.net.
I'm a retired Green Beret lieutenant colonel, Vietnam War veteran and career officer, and now a writer. After serving more than thirteen years in East Asia I was sent on assignments in El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, and eventually worked Korea and East Asian affairs at both the Pentagon and Department of State.
My many adventures since then have included raising llamas and alpacas in upstate New York, serving as the Executive Director of the Korea Society in Manhattan, working as an international marketing VP for General Electric in Asia, and traveling within corners of the world that few have had the privilege of experiencing.
In April-May 2008 I spent a month embedded with Military Police units in Iraq. Stories from my trip are posted at supportamericansoldiers.com — a book about what I saw and learned is also in the making.
My first book Separated at Birth: How North Korea became the Evil Twin was published in September 2004. |
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