Talk:Guantánamo Diary (memoir)

True Story?

I made a simple change to the introductory paragraph that was subsequently reverted by M.Bitton for no defendable reason. There are a variety of factually-based sources on the subject’s Wiki page (Mohamedou Ould Salahi) that confirm his status as a known terrorist who had his hands in a variety of terrorist attacks, including 9/11. Of course, in his near-fictional “memoir”, he denies all, despite publicly accessible overwhelming evidence of his guilt. His imprisonment at Guantanamo, the very root of both his “memoir” (and a derivative movie) was an extended one for a reason: He was guilty, he was a knowledgeable and cooperative source, he was a model prisoner, and he was considered likely to return to terrorist activities if released. His memoir is neither wholly factual nor complete and desecrates the graves of his thousands of victims, none of whom can speak for themselves. Let’s stick to facts and get this one right. CarlitosCorazon 16:42, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

This largely fictional “memoir” is not factual

I am disputing the veracity of this material Guantanamo Diary. M.Bitton believes that a “memoir” is “true” unless a referenced source states otherwise. That implies that all memoirs are, in fact, true. (Under that construct, for example, O.J. Simpson’s aborted memoir of Nicole Simpson’s murder is presumed to be completely true.) In this case, the book (and the derivative script) are patently false as INCLUDED references to various U.S. Government documents demonstrate. As the USG is not in the business of writing reviews of “memoirs” (or movies) M.Bitton wants us to rely on the memoir’s author (or the movie’s producers’ claim) that it is factual… but it’s not. The result is that Wikipedia is knowingly publishing known fiction as fact. And that policy(?) error diminishes the world’s greatest encyclopedic knowledge base to the level of “alternate facts”. I will not be party to this fraud.CarlitosCorazon 13:45, 21 September 2021 (UTC)