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 GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - The Middle Eastern man's name is a tightly held secret. No one in his family except his wife knows he works at this U.S. military base, where nearly 400 men captured in Washington's war on terror are held.
Known only as "Zak" to the detention staff and "Zaki" to detainees, he is Guantanamo Bay's Muslim cultural adviser, a civilian employee who meets with them and helps their American captors understand their ways.
Zak says he has helped add books to the prison library, improve the prisoners' food and at times has raised inmate concerns to the prison's military commander. But he's no advocate for the detainees, and many don't like him very much. Zak says the inmates have branded him a traitor and an enemy of God — and that they would kill him if they could.
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