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2 This dissertation was submitted in partial fulfillment of the Masters Degree course in Internat... more 2 This dissertation was submitted in partial fulfillment of the Masters Degree course in International Relations and was written in 2010 and has not yet been updated; although I intend to do so at a later date -subsequently new facts have emerged and today in July 2013 Guantanamo remains open. Copyright Martin E Ridley may be reproduced for Academic purposes 3 'Political language, as used by politicians, does not venture into any of this territory (truth) since the majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed'. Harold Pinter -Nobel Prize in Literature, acceptance speech 2005 1 1 Pinter,