In the panic after 9/11, the US swept hundreds of men into Guantánamo – most not terrorists at all – and built a system that could not admit its own failure, writes human rights lawyer Eric Lewis in this extract from his new book T he long odyssey of the Guantanamo detainees was precipitated by the reaction of the United States to September 11, 2001. The Bush Administration launched an assault on Afghanistan beginning around four weeks later, on October 7. Osama bin Laden had maintained his