The Road to Guantanamo


The Road to Guantnamo, alternatively The Road to Guantanamo, is a British 2006 docudrama film directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross about the incarceration of three British citizens the Tipton Three, who were captured in 2001 in Afghanistan and detained by the United States there and for more than two years at the detainment camp in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. It premiered at the Berlinale onFebruary 2006, and was first shown in the UK on ChannelonMarch 2006.

The film portrays the accounts of Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul the Tipton Three three young British men from Tipton in the West Midlands, who are of Pakistani and Bangladeshi ancestry. It features both actors and portrayals of actions, historical footage, and interviews with the three men.They travelled to Pakistan in September 2001, just days after the Septemberterrorist attacks in the USA, to attend a wedding of a friend of theirs. While staying at a mosque in Karachi, the three decided to take a trip to Afghanistan to see firsthand what was happening in the region. ........

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