America's disappeared : detainees, secret imprisonment, and the "War on Terror" / edited by Rachel Meeropol, with Reed Brody ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Rachel Meeropol -- Open letter to president George W. Bush from former detainees / Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal -- The Guantanamo prisoners / Michael Ratner -- Statement / Maher Arar -- Torture, "stress and duress," and rendition as counterterrorism tools / Steven MacPherson Watt -- The road to Abu Ghraib / Reed Brody -- Statement / Kenneth Scott -- Looking for hope: life as an immigration detainee / Phillip Marcus -- Statement / Hemnauth Mohabir -- The post-9/11 terrorism investigation and immigration detention / Rachel Meeropol -- Statement / Mohamed Maddy -- What does it mean to be an "enemy combatant"? / Barbara Olshansky -- Poem for my mother.