{"id":35304,"date":"2021-08-16T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/16\/guantanamo-detainee-mansoor-adayfi"},"modified":"2021-08-16T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T07:00:30","slug":"the-us-should-be-held-accountable-guantanamo-survivor-on-the-war-on-terrors-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35304","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The US should be held accountable\u2019: Guantanamo survivor on the war on terror\u2019s failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 20 years during which he was routinely tortured, Mansoor Adayfi, who now lives in Serbia, asks: \u2018What if that had been American boys?\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When a shackled Mansoor Adayfi was lumped on to a heap of shivering, naked bodies in the pitch black, a hood over his head and muffs around his ears, he assumed he was going to die.<\/p>\n<p>He had just been conducting research in Afghanistan, and was expecting to begin college at the end of the year. Instead, he was accused of being an al-Qaida leader, kidnapped by Afghan warlords and handed over to the CIA.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/16\/guantanamo-detainee-mansoor-adayfi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 20 years during which he was routinely tortured, Mansoor Adayfi, who now lives in Serbia, asks: \u2018What if that had been American boys?\u2019When a shackled Mansoor Adayfi was lumped on to a heap of shivering, naked bodies in the pitch black, a hood ove&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1321,212,61,45,47,42,943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-guantanamo-bay","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news","category-yemen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35305,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35304\/revisions\/35305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}