Secret Lives of the Detainees

1. Ansar al-Banna

Ansar al-Banna was the first prisoner to start screaming in his own cell, before anyone had touched him. His interviewers, for all their ingenuity, found themselves emptying flare guns into the pulsing sun of his pain. Ansar observed their efforts with mild irritation, barely interrupting the scream hed brought with him. The Doberman gazed into the two-way mirror with its jaws puzzled shut, like an actor working with an uncooperative animal.