Nerve Endings Firing Away

Another book causes a storm at Guantanamo Bay and it isn’t any religious book this time. It seems Harry Potter is not only topping NY Times best seller lists but also the Gitmo Prison library request list. Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists seem to have a new found fascination for the boy wizard. Maybe they are just looking for some magic in their lives (or seeking inspiration from Sirius Black’s escape from Azkaban). Prison guards at Gitmo can be worse than Dementors, if past events are to be trusted.

It must be an interesting experience for a Gitmo detainee to go back and read Potter after a day of naked torture, Koran pissing/flushing and all. It also seems that they no longer prefer Agatha Christie because the mysteries of Voldermort’s seven horcruxes is far more compelling. When asked by a interrogator about their next possible target in the ongoing insurgency, one detainee almost said Hogwarts. Bush is still trying to locate it on Iraq’s map. Rumor also has it that prisoners are dividing up into Gryffindor and Syltherine teams and planning a Quidditch TriTerrorist cup. Congress is still contemplating if this can be considered anti-national or rather anti-church. Brooms are being confisticated because many detainees have broken their necks (not to mention mangled their beards) trying to fly over the barbed wires. But after they were told how much Potter books cost outside the prisons, they retreated back to their libraries.  I never knew these Taliban were such bookworms. They sure live in a fantasy world.