The Australian has an interesting article detailing the effect Potter has had on prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
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Ex-US Air Force translator Ahmad Al Halabi, who was also a librarian at Guantanamo Bay prison, said Hicks was one of several inmates who were "always arguing about which volume of Harry Potter they could have".
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Investigators thought a series of numbers next to Hicks's name on a cell block roster were part of a secret coded message between Mr Al Halabi and Hicks. But the "code" was in fact the reference numbers for the Harry Potter books in the library.
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The JK Rowling bestsellers have been in high demand among Western prisoners.
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Source:
The Australian via
Mugglenet.