Here is a list of guidelines from the Guantαnamo detainee library, obtained by The Miami Herald, which breaks down topics between restricted and authorized for distribution among war-on-terror captives.

RESTRICTED

(Topics with potential to create controversy or to train in ways to fight)

• Extremism

• Militant religious ideologies

• Racial and cultural hate groups ideologies (i.e. anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-Western

• Military topics

• Excessive graphic violence

• Sexual situation (nudity, adds for sexual enhancement substances and/or treating sexual dysfunctions, etc)

• Physical geography (i.e. building or subways systems that provides information about targets of potential attacks)

• Classified advertisements.

• Travel offers

AUTHORIZED

(Themes of family, tolerance, moral choices, mental escape, topics that expand the mind )

• Poetry

• Fiction

• Animals

• Nature

• Sports

• Art

• Music

• Geology

• Astronomy

• Marine biology

• Earth science

• Mathematics

• Agriculture

• Meteorology

• Weather U.S. states map

• Puzzles and Sudoku

• Philosophy (limited)

• Social studies

• Politics

• Religion

• History

• Dictionaries (English to/from target language)

• Language instruction

• Technology (common)

• Medical updates

• Physics

• Chemistry

• Electronics

• Current events

• Maps

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