It provoked my thoughts.

The article A Detainee's Case Shows the Hurdles that a release poses, by Scott Shane of the New York Times, gave me something to think about even after I finished reading the story. In the article, Shane described the situation of a recently released Guantanamo Bay detainee, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed. Ahmed is a Yemen citizen who spent seven years in Guantanamo only to be acquitted by a Judge's ruling less than a year ago. The judge ruled that the government did not have the necessary evidence to tie Ahmed to any crime. It should be easy now, right? The government should just let him go and anyone else who was wrongfully accused, but no. After spending years in prison, detainees, especially from unstable countries such as Yemen, are walking away with a new found hatred for America. So, the government is trying to place soon-to-be-released detainees into integration programs, but there have been mixed reviews whether the programs would actually work.

The greatest part of this story is that it is capable of describing this no-win situation and leaves the reader with this question, 'what do we do now?' This question isn't the product of an under-researched story; it is the product of a story that was written to bring the reader into the story . Shane was very through with his reporting by gathering the important facts on Ahmed's release and by linking his story to other detainees that have already been released. The structure of Shane's article has become my favorite was of organizing a story; it opens with a story and then goes into all the details. I don't think any other way would have worked for this story, but nonetheless, I enjoyed it.