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Gitmo Guards Allegedly Mess with Prisoner by Giving Him 'Fifty Shades'
Prisoner said he was the subject of a "sort of disinformation campaign."
Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ammar al-Baluchi says his guards are messing with him. Al-Baluchi, who was allegedly involved in the 9/11 attacks, has been attending pretrial hearings this week, during which his lawyer has claimed that guards gave him a copy of E.L. James's Fifty Shades of Grey on a break as a "practical joke" — or even some "sort of disinformation campaign."
This report comes after Rep. Jim Mora told The Huffington Post in July that many Guantanamo detainees have been reading Fifty Shades. In general, the reading material of Gitmo prisoners has been of acute interest as of late. Earlier this month, John Grisham railed in The New York Times against the "injustice" of prisoners there being unable to read his books. That was followed by a controversy over Stephen King's It, which was finally allowed into the Gitmo library.
Will Manning get copies of "50 Shades of Grey" like his pals at Gitmo?
— Jacob Perry (@jacobperry) August 22, 2013
Al-Baluchi's lawyer, James Connell, claims al-Baluchi said "'No, thank you.' He does not want the book." Connell says he will not file a complaint, but that if this is the guards idea of a joke "it has gone too far."