Q. You were a “balancer.” What exactly did that mean, and when did you come to this realization?
A. I was actually doing my laundry, and a guard comes up to me and says, “You’re not like all the other Muslim guys, you’re going to go home soon. Keep your head up, you’re only here to balance.”
Following his hard-hitting investigative report on Communications Management Units titled ‘Little Gitmo‘, New York Magazine‘s Christopher Stewart conducted a short interview with Sparrow’s Andy Stepanian about his personal experience as an inmate there. You can read the interview online HERE or read commentary in this week’s printed edition available on news stands everywhere.
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