S.I. Rosenbaum: (June 27) — On a sweltering January afternoon in 2008, Kelly Keagy — aging rock star, drummer for Night Ranger, the guy who belts MOTORINNN' on that one power anthem from the '80s — found himself in the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
He and his bandmates walked alongside a chain-link fence topped with rolls of razor wire. On the other side, a group of men in head-wraps and loose-fitting white clothes stood in a small yard paved in gravel. They were prisoners — men designated "unlawful combatants" by the Bush administration and held without charges or trial.
The band's handlers wanted them to move along. But the rockers stopped to look at the men on the other side…
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