In November of that year, Salahi moved to Montreal, where he began leading prayers at a prominent mosque. Instead, the men stripped him naked, strapped a diaper on him, and swapped out his shackles for a heavier set. He tried to sleep, but his mind was racing with the expectation of torture at dawn. A private jet landed, and out climbed a Jordanian rendition team. The gulf between the U.S. governments public disclosures and its secret practices was etched into his body and his mind. He also believed that Slahi's interrogators had broken the law tormenting him physically and sexually, and. You very much become a child again.. Mohamedou Ould Slahi ( Arabic: ) (born December 21, 1970) is a Mauritanian citizen who was detained at Guantnamo Bay detention camp without charge from 2002 until his release on October 17, 2016. Walid was a prodigious poetin Nouakchott, he had won several awardsand when bin Laden met him he was impressed by his eloquence and conviction. Helicopters dropped flyers in remote Afghan villages, offering wealth and power beyond your dreams to anyone who turned in a member of Al Qaeda or the Taliban. Guantanamo Diary Revisited recounts the experience of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a citizen of Mauritania, who was imprisoned at the Guantnamo Bay facility from 2002 to 2016, accused by American. He and Salahi were smitten with the Al Qaeda narrative, that a ragtag group of mujahideen, carrying light weapons and hiding in caves, were taking on a superpower in the defense of all Muslims. No, its not looking good at all, Salahi said. Striking horror, panic, and fear in the hearts of the enemies of Allah is a divine commandment. He added that American citizens should blame their law-enforcement and intelligence agencieswith their satellites, ground stations, millions of spies, and huge budgetsfor the fact that the hijackers had found a security breach as big as a whole fleet of hijacked civilian aircraft, and managed to shove Americas nose into the ground.. They drove up to the stairs of an airplane, but, Salahi wrote, he was so exhausted, sick, and tired that I couldnt walk, which compelled the escort to pull me up the steps like a dead body.. Now, as he read, I saw how beautiful the religion was, he said. When Salahis lawyers wrote to him, asking that he inform them of everything he had told the government, he wrote back, Are you out of your mind! In October 2016 he made it home after 14 years in Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, where the U.S. government had imprisoned and tortured him as a suspected terrorist. Is this something that happens to people who have little external stimulus such as daylight, human interaction etc???? One of the hardest things to do is to tell an untruthful story and maintain it, and that is exactly where I was stuck., On September 8th, Salahi asked to speak to Zuley. Before meeting Salahi, Wood had never heard of Mauritania; Salahi told him that, to his great embarrassment, slavery was still practiced there, even among people close to him. While Salahi was being tortured, James Yee, the Muslim military chaplain, discovered that he and the interpreters at Guantnamomany of whom were Muslim Americans, with Middle Eastern backgroundswere being spied on by law-enforcement and intelligence officers. Then the men were loaded onto an airplane. One was a self-help book about finding happiness in a hopeless place. On one page, he recalled the day he got his nickname, when an interrogator brought him a pillow. Later that summer, Abu Hafs wrote a twelve-page dissent, but bin Laden bristled at his defiance, and the objections of other Al Qaeda leaders, and moved forward. Salahi noted that Steve snores likehow do you call it?a steam train.. His heavily redacted book about his time in the U.S. facility was published in January 2015. But it wasnt until two years later that bin Laden shared with the Shura Council the broad outlines of the attack: four planes; two civilian targets; two government targets. I am not in Afghanistan, Salahi replied. En 2005, trois ans aprs son arrestation, Mohamedou a commenc rdiger un journal. What if he is, like, I hate these sons of bitches for locking me up? He had spent the morning of the worst terrorist attack in American history lying on his mothers couch, high on painkillers after a tonsillectomy, but when he emerged from the haze he was angry, focussed, and longing for deployment. When a nurse, who spoke only Hassaniya Arabic, filled out Mohamedous birth certificate in the Latin alphabet, she omitted a syllable from his last name. The next morning, he found two pinhole cameras. Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. had been torturing detainees at black sites for several months; now the Guantnamo leadership wanted to understand the legal gymnastics that would be required to implement a program of their own. At the time, Slahi had been in captivity for two years, accused of acts of terrorism. I stand for 8-10.. Military personnel took his biometric information, and logged his health problemsincluding a damaged sciatic nervethen led him to a cell. Mohamedou Ould Slahi. I came to Canada with a plan to blow up the CN Tower in Toronto, Salahi wrote, in one of his many confessions. That day, Neelys job was to haul captives from a bus to a holding area for processing, and then to small, outdoor cages, where they would spend nearly four months sleeping on rocks, and relieving themselves in buckets, while soldiers constructed more permanent cellblocks. Its their citizen, and its their country.. But the procedure wasnt carried out properlyhe continued to be in painand by the summer of 2016 it was clear that he required corrective laparoscopic surgery. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was sent to his home country of Mauritania after 14 years of imprisonment. Everyone wants to close Guantnamo, but what will happen to the detainees? A government report describes the facility as having been modified in such a way as to reduce as much outside stimuli as possible, with doors that had been sealed to a point that allows no light to enter the room. Inside, the walls were covered with white paint or paper to further eliminate objects the detainee may concentrate on. There was an eyebolt for shackling him to the floor, and speakers for bombarding him with sound. The United States released Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the author of a renowned prison memoir, after he was detained for more than 14 years in Jordan, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo, and returned him. As the result of a recent court ruling, Guantnamo detainees had access to legal representation, and so, during the next several months, Salahi drafted a diary of his detention as a series of harrowing letters to his lawyers, Nancy Hollander, Sylvia Royce, and Theresa Duncanfour hundred and sixty-six pages, sealed in envelopes and mailed to a classified facility near Washington, D.C. No guards or interrogators were allowed to read Salahis work. Thats like asking Charlie Sheen how many women he dated. The important stuff was in his diary, he said, which they could read only inside a secure facility near Washington, D.C. He and his comrades were told that many of the detainees were responsible for 9/11 and, given the opportunity, would strike again. An American woman, who he assumed was an intelligence officer, entered the room, and stood by as a Senegalese officer questioned him about the Millennium Plot. They named him Ahmed, and Salahi asked Wood to be the godfather. Everyone, including myself, was very nervous, he said. O.K., screw it, it is not a problemthey can watch me, he said. Conversion to Islam requires only that, in the presence of Muslim witnesses, you declare the ShahadaThere is no God but God, and Muhammad is his prophetand that you believe it in your heart. There, Abu Hafs spent two months in custody, as a formality. That May, U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden, and collected more than a million documents from his compound in northern Pakistan; among them was a letter from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, seeking the central leaderships blessing to enter into a secret agreement with the Mauritanian government. He left the Oregon National Guard, and started working night shifts at a twenty-four-hour gym near Portland. Wed try to cover it back up, real quick, but eventually we were, like, fuck it. What followed was a period of experimentationoverseen by psychologists, lawyers, and medical personnelat C.I.A. Before leaving Guantnamo, he gave Salahi a novel by Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company. Pillow, good luck with your situation, he wrote inside. In 1998, shortly after Al Qaeda detonated truck bombs outside the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Salahi took a call from a phone number belonging to bin Laden. Bin Laden had fled to the mountains, and the remaining Al Qaeda leaders understood that, as Arabs and North Africans, they could never blend in with the locals, who spoke Dari, Pashto, Balochi, and other regional languages. Afghanistans civil war entered a new stage, with rival Islamist groups vying for control, and Salahi wanted no part of it. It was the first time in my thirty-year CIA career that I had ever heard an order to kill someone, Schroen wrote. When Wendy saw the post, she was outragedbut also somewhat relieved, since it partly explained his secretive behavior. See if you think his captivity was just. The interrogations covered the same topics as before: Abu Hafs; Al Qaedas training camps in 1992; the Millennium Plot. Since then, the U.S. military has exposed some lite soldiers to the techniques, to prepare them for the kinds of abuses they might encounter should they be captured by terrorist groups or governments that dont abide by the Geneva Conventions. (ge) A man who is widely regarded as the most tortured prisoner in the history . Were gonna feed you up your ass, an interrogator said. They took off from Uzbekistan and flew into northern Afghanistan, over the snow-capped mountains of the Hindu Kush. English was his fourth language. Couch never met Salahi, but, while Zuley was torturing him, Couch received summaries of each new confession. In return, they passed along messages from Salahi, which they had invented, and assured the family that Salahi was well. Im now in Canada, attending a mosque where we believe a very dangerous group is attending. And, because it was Ramadan, Salahi was leading prayers. Zuley read Salahi a letter, later shown to be forged, stating that his mother was in U.S. custody and might soon be transferred to Guantnamo. But, hey, I have to cope with it. The men slept on his floor and left for Afghanistan at dawn. I dont have a problem with black peoplehalf my country is black people! But the agent kept using racial slurs. Each time, the minister liedeven after the Red Cross had started delivering Salahis letters from Guantnamo to his family. Until recently, the former spy chief Deddahi Ould Abdellahi lived directly across the street. Outside of the political discussions, he and Salahi passed the hours playing rummy, Risk, and chess. Now, faced with their own incompetence, Fallon wrote, interrogators were quick to blame classic Manchester resistance tactics!. In 2004, Steve Wood was deployed to Guantnamo Bay, as a member of the Oregon National Guard. Everything that happened to meeverything I witnessed in Guantnamo Bayhappened in the name of democracy, in the name of security, in the name of the American people, Salahi told the audience at the Amnesty event. In his home country, Neely said, this man had seen some of his friends and family members executed on their knees. The mans response was hardly unique; a military document, drafted ten days later for the base commander, noted that the detainees think they are being taken to be shot., Officially, the job of the Internal Reaction Force was to restrain unruly detainees, to prevent them from injuring themselves or the guards. The interrogations always circled back to the Millennium Plot. Soon afterward, in Guantnamo Bay, Salahi saw his own face on a TV screen. He said, Canada is amazingthere is no racism, they speak French, and it is just a very advanced country, Salahi said years later, in a U.S. military hearing. In 2005, Mauritania had a military coupthe typical way in which power has changed hands since independence. In September 2003, Couch was assigned to prepare the prosecution of Mohamedou Ould Slahi after he joined the Office of Military Commissions in August 2003. All he saw was a rat, Salahi wrote. Salahi called the police to report that his neighbors were spying on him, but they told him that he should just cover the cameras with glue. In Nouakchott, Abdellahi and his subordinates began to map out the network, detaining people close to Abu Hafs and soliciting the names of other jihadis. A couple of years later, he considered visiting Mauritania, to track down Salahis family and apologize for his role in Salahis detention. This is my daughter. As at Guantnamo, he often worked at night. But sometimes, after coperating, hed get depressed and anxious, and say, Im a bad Muslim, Wood told me. Two UNM School of Law graduates, Nancy Hollander ('78) and Teri Duncan ('00), represented Mohamedou between 2005 and 2016, when he was finally released. Outside Echo Special, Wood started reading about Guantnamo on activist Web sites, but a colleague warned him that Internet traffic was monitored on the base. [4] Slahi traveled from his home in Germany to Afghanistan in December 1990 "to support the mujahideen." In Nouakchott, Abdellahis men detained Salahi again in the fall of 2001, at the request of the Americans. It was the spring of 2004. How does he behave? Moreover, he is handicapped. Its not just, Yes, I did! No, it doesnt work that way: you have to make up a complete story that makes sense to the dumbest dummies. Medical personnel had noted that Salahi had sciatic-nerve issues; now interrogators kept him in stress positions that exacerbated them. During a lull in conversation, he turned to Salahi and, gesturing toward Wood and me, said, So, you studied in the United States?. This episode was recorded on June 7th 2021.Dr Jordan Peterson's guest Mohamedou Ould Slahi shares his experience with more than a decade of torture, interrog. One day, German officers questioned one of Salahis friends. Mohamedou Ould Slahi Born: December 21, 1970 Birthplace: Rosso, Mauritania Jodie Foster Born: November 19, 1962 Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA Nancy Hollander Born: March 10, 1944 Benedict Cumberbatch Born: July 19, 1976 Birthplace: Hammersmith, London, England, UK Lt. Col. Stuart Couch Born: April 20, 1965 With the assistance of German intelligence, Abdellahi told me, we started collecting the maximum amount of information. To insure Salahis upkeep, the family regularly gave Abdellahis men money, food, clothes, and gifts. On paper, Salahi is not listed as the father. It was kind of like, We aint gonna beat you ourselves, but you know where you are! So I knew the FBI wanted to interrogate me under the pressure and threat of a non-democratic country., On February 19, 2000, Abdellahi let him go home. Since then, I have received it, eaten it, and paid for it! Cole, and hoped that some of the men who were being shipped to Guantnamo would have information about the case. Around that time, Abu Hafs explained, it became clear to him that the Mauritanian President would be open to his return from Iran. The prosecutor assigned to Salahis case was a lieutenant colonel named Stuart Couch, who had retired from the military before 9/11. According to interrogation memos, they decorated the walls with photos of genitalia, and set up a baby crib, because he was sensitive about the fact that he had no children. Several of his co-workers were missing fingers, and the manager took every opportunity to denigrate the staff. Until recently, the guards and the interrogators had worn Halloween masks inside the cell. interrogator told him that the military would take over his interrogation. By now, Wood was no longer dating Summers mother. You must forget your fear to achieve anything., Last summer, Salahi completed an online course to become a certified life coach. His wife, two-year-old son and brother live here. Another year passed. The tape would fall off our uniforms, Wood recalled. I Tweeted it. To dispel notions that the United States was at war with Islam, detainees were allowed to have private meetings with a Muslim military chaplain, and were given copies of the Quran. . Meanwhile, his subordinates continued to collect bribes from Salahis family. The videos had been pulled from jihadi Web sites, or captured by intelligence officers during raids, and Salahis role was to identify the people in them. Force-feeding during the daylight hours of Ramadan, when Muslims are supposed to fast. Wood was the second of three boys. We got to the site at sunrise; the sky was a hazy, muted orange, from wildfires burning to the south. Salahi agreed, and Abu Hafs wired around four thousand dollars to his German account. But the problem is that you cannot just admit to something you havent done; you need to deliver the details, which you cant when you hadnt done anything. Abu Hafs was back in Afghanistan, living with his family in Kandahar. Ahmed is a camel herder, as his father was before him and as his young son Abdullahi will be after him. To be honest I can report very little about the next couple of weeks, Salahi wrote, because I was not in the right state of mind., Soon afterward, an interrogator e-mailed Diane Zierhoffer, a military psychologist, with concerns about Salahis mental health. But I give him advice, and he takes it., Mauritania was the site of regular jihadi violence in the second half of the aughts, while Abu Hafs was living in Iran. Government officials suggested that Yee was running an elaborate spy ringthat he and other Muslims had infiltrated the military, and represented the gravest insider threat since the Cold War. They showed him photos of various hijackers, and one of Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the attack cordinator, who had been captured in Pakistan. Wood, then a member of the. In Guantnamo Diary, Mohamedou Ould Slahi describes the months of brutal interrogation, sleep deprivation, beatings, starvation, and sexual assault he endured at the U.S. government's notorious detention center in Cuba. Everyone on the team was dressed entirely in black, their faces obscured by balaclavas. The Senegalese did the talking, but the Americans provided the questions and reported back to D.C. An image of bin Ladens face adorned the windshield, and Abu Hafs spent much of the journey to the Iranian border, some four hundred miles, wondering whether it was a Wanted poster or a tribute. You will have a job at the snap of a finger, his friend told him. With a movie based on his ordeal. But, when he wanted to engage, he spoke with a worldly, provocative humor that Wood found appealing. In 1967, Martin Seligman, a twenty-four-year-old Ph.D. student in psychology, conducted an experiment that involved delivering electric shocks to dogs in various states of restraint. . A Guantanamo bay convict claims he was forced to have sex with female interrogators in his recently published memoir. In that meeting, Abu Hafs challenged bin Laden on Quranic grounds, arguing that the scale of civilian casualties could not be justified in Islam. Wood is six feet three, with a shaved head, a shy, stoic manner, and the musculature of an lite bodybuilder. But the C.I.A., which spent the next few years shuffling its high-value detainees among so-called black sites in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe, had seen fit to transfer him into military custody. Mohamedou was . The techniqueswhich government documents identify as omnipotence tactics, degradation tactics, debilitation tactics, and monopolization of perception tacticshad been developed by Communist forces during the Korean War, to coerce prisoners into making false confessions, for propaganda purposes. For Wood, the trip became something more complicated than a visit to a friend. Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantnamo Diary is at least the fifth autobiography by a Guantnamo prisoner. It became fashionable for high-profile corporate-law firms to represent Guantnamo clients, pro bono, but many detainees rejected representation, because they thought it was a ploy to lend legitimacy to an unjust detention. Meanwhile, the Bush Administrations pretext for invading Iraq was collapsing, and so was Woods trust in government. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, author of "Guantanamo Diary," was released after a review board determined that his continued detention was not necessary to protect against a threat to U.S. security . By the time Wood left, he had come to accept his guards and interrogators as family. There, an intelligence officer named Yacoub confiscated Salahis Quran and left him in a dank cell. Mohamedou Ould Sah es uno de tantos casos que estn sufriendo en una prisin, acusados de delitos que no cometieron. Once every fifteen minutes, a prisoner tried to hang himself by tying his sheet around his neck and fastening it through the mesh of the cage wall, James Yee, an Army captain who served as the Muslim chaplain in Guantnamo, recalled in his memoir, For God and Country, from 2005. He was not happyhe didnt want to leave, Abdellahi told me. Abdellahi called Salahis boss at the telecommunications company, to assure him that Salahi should be allowed to resume work. Forces recruits who speak grammatically incorrectly, he wrote on a scrap of paper inside his cell. Abdellahis men confiscated his passport, once again citing a request by the Americans. The punishment for talking to another detainee was to be hung by the wrists, feet barely touching the ground. They punched Salahi in the face and the ribs, then covered his eyes with blackout goggles, his ears with earmuffs, and his head with a bag. ), In October, 2004, Woods girlfriend gave birth to a daughter, Summer. explained to Wood that the current guard force called Detainee 760 Pillow, because when they had arrived, several months earlier, a pillow was the only object in his possession. Now bin al-Shibh, who was being tortured in C.I.A. . Soon afterward, Canadian investigators came to the apartment and questioned him about the Millennium Plot. The guards, who were officially prohibited from interacting with him, began asking questions. In deliberations with Al Qaeda leaders, he decided that the safest place was Iran. Mohamedou Ould Slahi spent 14 years of his life as a detainee in the United States military prison at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. A fourth was Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the attack cordinator; while in C.I.A. After. 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