What do the Guantanamo prisoners read? Harry Potter, Cervantes, Obama.
What are the three most requested titles by the remaining 229 prisoners?
1. The Harry Potter novels
2. Cervantes' Don Quixote
3. Barack obama's Dreams from my Father.
No reason was given for these choices, which are followed in popularity by Muslim religious volumes.
Do they think Guantanamo is a little like Hogwarts Academy and that their torturers were Lord Voldemort?
Do they know that Miguel Cervantes fought at the second Battle of Lepanto in 1571 in which the Holy League defeated the Ottoman empire at sea, and that later on his ship was captured by the Algerians and he spent 5 years imprisoned and enslaved in Algiers before being ransomed-- thus reversing an element in their own biographies?
They are said to be fascinated that the new president of the United States has African and Muslim roots.
