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'The Road to Guantanamo' takes some interesting turns

"The Road to Guantanamo" is the incredibly true (maybe ...) story of three lads from Tipton, England, who went to Pakistan for a wedding and ended up imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for two years. Barely a month after 9/11, four British Muslims — Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Ruhel Ahmed — traveled to Pakistan to watch Asif get hitched. Once there, they made a series of naive (at best) decisions, the first being to heed an Iman's call to go to Afghanistan to help their under-siege neighbors. Things quickly got messed up. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
An account of three British Muslims, known as the "Tipton Three," who were captured during the war in Afghanistan and held for two years in the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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'The Road to Guantanamo'

Directors: Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross
Cast: Rizwan Ahmed, Ruhel Ahmed, Asif Iqbal, Shafiq Rasul, Farhad Harun
Run time: 95 minutes
Release date: June 23, 2006
Rating: R for language and disturbing violent content.

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B-
"... a fascinating story — almost on a par with the feckless Three Little Pigs."


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