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Der Tagesspiegel interview/"Without Chains"
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PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER
Patti Smith Writes Song for Ex-Guantanamo Detainee Kurnaz
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,476869,00.html
Punk legend Patti Smith is famous for her uncompromising political
stances. Now she has written a song about Murat Kurnaz, the German
resident who was held in Guantanamo for over four years.
AP photo caption:
Because the night was made for torture and interrogation: Patti Smith
has written a song about Murat Kurnaz.
"Take my hand, come undercover, they can't hurt you now," sang Patti
Smith in her 1978 hit "Because the Night." The lyrics could certainly
apply to the German-born Turkish citizen Murat Kurnaz, who is now back
in Bremen after over four years in the United States detention camp at
Guantanamo Bay.
Now the legendary singer-songwriter has composed a song about Kurnaz
and his ordeal. The Chicago-born performer told German newspaper Der
Tagesspiegel Thursday that she has every intention of releasing the
song, titled "Without Chains," because of her horror at the
25-year-old's detention and treatment.
"I don't know why he was arrested and imprisoned but I have written
this song for him as an emotional reaction to the whole episode,"
Smith told the newspaper.
"When I look at this young man ... I ask myself how I would react if
my son had gone off travelling somewhere and was imprisoned by some
government for five years just because they entertained some
suspicions about him?"
Kurnaz was arrested in Pakistan just weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001
attacks and handed over to the US authorities. He eventually landed in
Guantanamo Bay where he says he was tortured until his release without
charges in August 2006.
INTERVIEW:
(12.04.2007)
Ich habe tagelang geweint"
Patti Smith ehrt auf ihrem neuen Album Rock-Klassiker. Ein Gesprdch
|ber Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain und Murat Kurnaz
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/archiv/12.04.2007/3194337.asp