In over three years of researching and reporting about the prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, I learned early on to expect, as one of Guantánamo's first commanders, Maj. Gen. Michael Dunlavey explained, that many of the men were "Mickey Mouse" prisoners, with no connection to terrorism whatsoever, and, in hundreds of cases, not even a tangential involvement in the Taliban's inter-Muslim civil war with Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, which preceded the 9/11 attacks, but morphed into a war against the U.S.