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Esquire Magazine on Noor Uthman Muhammad

Benjamin Wittes
Friday, August 19, 2011, 2:39 PM
Esquire magazine has this lengthy feature on Guantanamo detainee and convicted war criminal Noor Uthman Muhammad. It's a sympathetic account, one that treats Uthman chiefly as a victim. But it contains enough facts about the case that many readers will, I suspect, emerge less sympathetic than the author.

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Esquire magazine has this lengthy feature on Guantanamo detainee and convicted war criminal Noor Uthman Muhammad. It's a sympathetic account, one that treats Uthman chiefly as a victim. But it contains enough facts about the case that many readers will, I suspect, emerge less sympathetic than the author.

Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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