Abdellahis men confiscated his passport, once again citing a request by the Americans. Des milliers de livres avec la livraison chez vous en 1 jour ou en magasin avec -5% de rduction ou tlchargez la version eBook. In return, they passed along messages from Salahi, which they had invented, and assured the family that Salahi was well. But instead the United States is stating to the world very clear and loud that democracy does not workthat when you need to get down and dirty, you need a dictatorship. But sometimes, after coperating, hed get depressed and anxious, and say, Im a bad Muslim, Wood told me. But it stopped abruptly after a failed assassination attempt against the President, in 2011, which raised questions about whether he was cutting deals with Al Qaeda. One night in October, 2016, Woods phone rang while he was in a Safeway in Portland. Now, faced with their own incompetence, Fallon wrote, interrogators were quick to blame classic Manchester resistance tactics!. His proximity to so many events and high-level jihadi figures could not be explained by coincidence, they thought, and only a logistical mastermind could have left so faint a trail. Another year passed. 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. On his third visit, he told two Saudi students that he wanted to become a Muslim. They look like a prison uniform with stripes! He devoured volumes on history, foreign affairs, politics, civil rightspretty much any type of book you could think of, other than, like, romance novels, he said. Among such methods as forced nakedness, dietary manipulation, daily twenty-hour interrogations, waterboarding, exposure to freezing temperatures, and the withholding of medical care, Beaver endorsed the use of scenarios designed to convince the detainee that death was imminent. (She later expressed surprise that her legal opinion had become the final word on interrogation policies and practices within the Department of Defense.) An accompanying memo, drafted by a military psychologist and a psychiatrist, explained that all aspects of the environment should enhance capture shock, dislocate expectations, foster dependence, and support exploitation to the fullest extent possible., In November, 2002, the set of proposed techniques landed on Donald Rumsfelds desk. The whole time I was thinking, you know, What does he really think of us? he recalled. Then, and on at least one other occasion, a member of Al Qaedas Shura Councilits leadershipwired some four thousand dollars to Salahis bank account in Germany; Salahi withdrew the cash and handed it to men who were travelling to West Africa, to facilitate what the Americans assessed to be money-laundering and telecommunications projects for al-Qaida., In 1999, the Shura member called Salahi, but U.S. intelligence didnt know what his instructions were. After lunch, I stood in the reception area, watching Mauritanian politicians and tribal leaders kiss Abu Hafs on both cheeks and thank him for coming. The sessions Wood witnessed were calm and courteous, with Salahi attempting to answer everything asked of him. Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. Some of Mohsens bad friends, as Salahi described them, visited Mohsens apartment while he was hosting Salahi. This was my first time hearing these words, Salahi said. I am denied my freedom because I was denied my freedom, Salahi said. From the floor of Parliament, Badre Eddine noted that Mauritania has no extradition treaty with the United States. After the attacks, Cofer Black, the head of the C.I.A.s Counterterrorism Center, who had served as the agencys Khartoum station chief while bin Laden was in Sudan, assured President GeorgeW. Bush that men like Abu Hafs would soon have flies walking across their eyeballs. The next day, he ordered Gary Schroen, the agencys former Kabul station chief, to gather a team for a paramilitary mission. VIDEO The Mauritanian: Mohamedou Ould Slahi on his 14 years in Guantanamo After 9/11 he was imprisoned and tortured by the US yet never charged with a crime. En 2005, trois ans aprs son arrestation, Mohamedou a commenc rdiger un journal. Although he towered over Salahi, he hesitated before taking his hand, and when he did he noted how delicate Salahi was. I just remember being super excited, because I thought, Im going to be doing something important, Wood told me. They were very jumpy, Salahi recalled at his hearing. Another dissonance was that Salahis eloquent orations on fundamental human rights stopped short of confronting a reality that Wood noticed on the second day: as guests of Mauritanian lites, they were served lavish meals by people who appeared to be slaves. He left the Oregon National Guard, and started working night shifts at a twenty-four-hour gym near Portland. 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. I am not in Afghanistan, Salahi replied. In Kandahar, Abu Hafs felt the Americans closing in. I was an agent of the state. It takes a lot of prep to start the job, but, when youve done your bit, youre leaving things better than when you arrived, he said. In Nouakchott, Abdellahi waited for updates from the C.I.A. There, Abu Hafs spent two months in custody, as a formality. Thirty or forty of Abu Hafss followers filled a small wooden shack next to his home, spilling into the street, while he led prayers through a microphone. But, when the list of detainees finally arrived, he recalled, my reaction was, What the fuck? Theyd ask me, Whos in there?, and Id say, I dont know, probably somebody famous.. During a lull in conversation, he turned to Salahi and, gesturing toward Wood and me, said, So, you studied in the United States?. But I changed my mind after Guantnamo, he told me. More detainees have died at Guantnamo than have been convicted of a crime. Abu Hafs ascended to Al Qaedas Shura Council, where he served as bin Ladens personal adviser on Sharia law. Soon afterward, in a room at the same hotel, the U.S. State Department hosted a training session for Mauritanias security-intelligence apparatus, on Interdiction of Terrorist Activities. Salahi suffered night terrors, and Wood suffered a splitting headache from caffeine withdrawal. Herrington later reported that the interrogators were unsure of the real names of more than half the detainees. For 14 years and two months . The irony is that I have never been in the States, and all the other countries I have been in kept saying, The guy is alright.. By now, Wood was no longer dating Summers mother. Eventually, Salahi would be allowed access to a small patch of soil outside his trailer, where he tended sunflowers, basil, sage, parsley, and cilantro. Wahrheit macht frei, the officer saidthe truth sets you free. A private jet landed, and out climbed a Jordanian rendition team. Few locals spoke French, but since the country had been arbitrarily drawn up as a vast, mostly desert territory, populated by numerous ethnic groups who spoke different languages, there was no alternative for official documentation. They were everywhere in the mosque, in the police car, twenty-four hours. Among the targets of the investigation was Mohsen, Salahis friend and host. . Salahi agreed, and Abu Hafs wired around four thousand dollars to his German account. The Taliban was rapidly losing ground. He was driven around for three hours, to make him think that he was being transported to a different facility. In 2004, Steve Wood was deployed to Guantnamo Bay, as a member of the Oregon National Guard. Did you see what Steve brought me? Salahi said, pointing to some baby clothes. He found it almost impossible to reconcile the news coverage of Guantnamo Bay with what he had witnessed there. What would we tell the Mauritanians? the diplomat replied. On February 14, 2004, Salahi received a short letter from his mother in Mauritania, informing him that her health situation is OK. It had been eight hundred and fifteen days since he had seen heran ailing woman in the rearview mirror, waving from the street as he drove to Deddahi Abdellahis intelligence headquarters. Alicia Florrick has been a good wife to her husband, a former state's attorney . The host, who was a government official, grew agitated, pulled me aside, and urged me not to mention that I had ever been to his house. Medical personnel had noted that Salahi had sciatic-nerve issues; now interrogators kept him in stress positions that exacerbated them. He couldnt stop talking because he didnt know where he was, nor why, Salahi wrote. (All charges were later dropped, and Yee was honorably discharged. As they walked to the car, Salahi dug into Woods personal life. Everyone wants to close Guantnamo, but what will happen to the detainees? He and Abdellahi knelt on the runway, and prayed together. IRFing typically involved a team of six or more men dressed in riot gear: the first man would pepper-spray the detainee, then charge into the cell and, using a heavy shield and his body weight, tackle the detainee; the rest would jump on top, shackling or binding the detainee until he was no longer moving. team left Guantnamo, and the torture began. At a Pakistani Army checkpoint, he slipped a wad of bills into his passport, and went through unquestioned. But with these people you cannot be likable. He never told Wendy about his conversion. Each time, the minister liedeven after the Red Cross had started delivering Salahis letters from Guantnamo to his family. When my turn came, two guards grabbed me by the hands and feet and threw me toward the reception team, Salahi wrote. A week after Salahi began leading prayers at the Al Sunnah mosque, Ressam drove a rental car onto a U.S.-bound ferry in Victoria, British Columbia. There was no fanfare, no announcement. The Americans learned only that, as a condition for return, he agreed that he would renounce his former association and embark on a message of denouncing terrorism and preaching a more tolerant and pacifist message. I asked whether the United States, after learning of his return, had sought to detain or rendition him. According to a senior U.S. diplomat, when the United States was negotiating the terms of his return, the Mauritanians did agree that they would not give him a passport for some x amount of time. Two and a half years later, Salahi and his lawyers have no clarity about the parameters of x, or about why the United States has any say in whether the Mauritanian government issues a passport to a Mauritanian. His very existence will become erased. Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Steve Wood met in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2004. The decision to keep his conversion a secret from everyone in his life made him feel at times as if being Muslim were wrong, even though, in his heart, he still believed. When he learned that a military review board would consider releasing Salahi, he wrote a letter saying that, based on my interactions with Mr. Slahi in Guantnamo, I would be pleased to welcome him into my home, and offering to testify in person. The night terrors kept coming. It is a fact that they understand this whole concept of terrorism much better than the average American interrogator, Salahi said, in his military hearing. Stand the fuck up! an interrogator said. One day, Zuley walked into Salahis cell, carrying a pillow. And I knew that the request was justified, because he had connections in this milieu, these Islamo-terrorist circles, and he might be able to give his captors some ideas of how to improve security. But the government had abandoned the theory that Salahi knew about 9/11 before it happened. The men were dragged out of their cells. But, when the new commander asked Stuart Herrington, a retired colonel and Army intelligence officer, to assess operations at the facility, Herrington found that most interrogators lacked the training and the experience required to be effective. agents threatened Salahi with torture, and tried to intimidate him. For the next seventy days I wouldnt know the sweetness of sleeping. After three months, he left Afghanistan and returned to Duisburg, where he worked in a computer-repair shop while he finished his degree. For years, Mohamedou Salahi was imprisoned on the grounds of being a suspected collaborator in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Guantnamo Diary and the American Slave Narrative. Thirty-five years later, the United States government drew inspiration from this experiment in its approach to interrogating terror suspects. They must no longer be denied the right to family. A couple of years later, he considered visiting Mauritania, to track down Salahis family and apologize for his role in Salahis detention. O.K., screw it, it is not a problemthey can watch me, he said. I want to ask you a favor, if it is O.K. They tightened the chains on his ankles and wrists, then threw him into the back of a truck, drove to the water, and loaded him into a speedboat. When I visited Wood, last August, he and his team were layering the surface of a bridge near Dayton, Oregon, with epoxy, rocks, and primer. . The next day, Wood pressed him to talk about the episode, but Salahi wouldnt elaborate. The detainee introduced himself as Mohamedou Salahi, then reached for a handshake, and said, Whats up, dude?. ), In October, 2004, Woods girlfriend gave birth to a daughter, Summer. During the next few months, Wood showed up between prayer times, to avoid any pressure to participate. Wood, who was twenty-three, had recently learned that his girlfriend was pregnant. Another two years passed before Salahis name caught the attention of Deddahi Ould Abdellahi, the head of Mauritanias security-intelligence apparatus. agents walked into the cell. When he refused to back out of the interview, Wendy insisted that he wear an on-camera disguise. Everyone, including myself, was very nervous, he said. The Americans, with their policies, bore the fruit of the events of September 11th, Abu Hafs said on camera. In deliberations with Al Qaeda leaders, he decided that the safest place was Iran. Instead, they are tried by secret military commissionsif they are tried at all. If the detainee dies, youre doing it wrong. (Fredman has disputed the accuracy of the meeting minutes. Mohamed Elmoustapha Ould Badre Eddine, a left-wing member of the Mauritanian Parliament, conducted inquiries of his own, but made no progress. While in custody, Salahi had befriended Yacoub, the intelligence officer who had been one of his guards. Once, he watched an IRF team leader beat a detainee so badly that he had to be sent to the hospital and the floor of his cell was stained with blood; the next time the team leader was in the cellblock, another detainee yelled out, Sergeant, have you come back to finish him off?. Canadas Security Intelligence Service began a surveillance operation focussing on Salahi and his associates, but Salahi noticed two pinhole cameras poking through his apartment walls and left the country. I told him I have no problem with the Jews, either, man. He and his family had spent almost ten years under the protection of the Revolutionary Guard, but, with talk of the Obama Administrations thaw in relations with Iran, Abu Hafs began to worry that he could be traded into U.S. custody. Salahi had deleted the contents of his phone. 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. At sunrise, the plane landed at Bagram Airfield, the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan. . So, completely different goals in life., Sometimes Wood opened Salahis Quran to a random page and told him the verse number, and Salahi would recite it aloud from memory, first in Arabic, then in English. All I can tell you is to tell the truth. They hugged. 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. Mohamedou Ould Sah es uno de tantos casos que estn sufriendo en una prisin, acusados de delitos que no cometieron. A few weeks later, Iranian spies told Abu Hafs to call other Al Qaeda officials and inform them that they would be welcome in Iranalthough, like him, they would live with their wives and children under a form of house arrest, sometimes in prisons, sometimes in lavish compounds and hotels, always in the company of the Revolutionary Guard. You will have a job at the snap of a finger, his friend told him. Forces recruits who speak grammatically incorrectly, he wrote on a scrap of paper inside his cell. In 1988, the Saudi ideologue Osama bin Laden announced the formation of Al Qaeda. Now bin al-Shibh, who was being tortured in C.I.A. Although many of the detainees arrived malnourished, with their bodies marked by bullet wounds and broken bones, some IRF teams punched them and slammed their heads into the ground until they were bloody and unconscious. Later, Salahi moved to Germany, where, the Americans assessed, his primary responsibility was to recruit for al-Qaida in Europe. Among his alleged recruits were three of the 9/11 hijackers, all of whom served as pilots on separate planes. But Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who spent almost 14 years at Guantnamo and says he was brutally beaten and threatened with execution without ever being charged with a crime, has some advice for his onetime captors: Come clean about what was done to the detainees there, and transfer those accused of committing the Sept. 11 attacks to the United . In addition to Salahis abdominal pain, and regular migraines, he still suffers from night terrors. Id read about Muslim heroes who faced the death penalty, head up, he wrote. Btihal Remli for The New York. Some guards saw an opportunity to torment the detaineesby tossing the Quran into the toilet, for example, or by breaking the binding under the guise of searching for weapons. Desecration of the Quran provoked riots in the cellblocks, which resulted in IRF teams storming into the cells and beating up detainees. In June, 2004, the Supreme Court ruled that Guantnamo detainees could challenge the grounds for their detention. At an event, I exchanged phone numbers with an extremely submissive server who was dressed in ragged clothes and had a cloudy, damaged eye. Military personnel took his biometric information, and logged his health problemsincluding a damaged sciatic nervethen led him to a cell. The Mauritanian tells the true story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi - played by Tahar Rahim in a Bafta-nominated turn - a man from the northwestern African state of the title, whose tenuous. I took the pillow as a sign of the end of the physical torture.. 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. Its so empty, now that Steve left, he said to me. While Abu Hafs was handling Al Qaedas affairs in East Africa, his father became ill, and so, as both men remember it, Abu Hafs requested Salahis help in transferring money to care for his family in Mauritania. Amanda, who lives in Europe, was pregnant, and Salahi would miss the birth of his son. In time, he was given back his pain medication. One day, after an interrogator kicked a Quran across the floor, detainees organized a mass suicide attempt. Then Abu Hafs greeted Wood, who, appearing paralyzed by confusion, coldly took his hand. The Corrupt World Behind the Murdaugh Murders. Seven months later, his deployment ended. When the ice melted, they punched him, then repacked the ice to freeze him again. Taliban fighters walked the streets, confident in the support they received from Pakistans intelligence service. Detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi joined the terrorist organisation Al-. The Ambassador drove him to Tehrans international airport in a diplomatic vehicle, and accompanied him through the diplomatic channel, through airport security and immigration, right up until the moment he got on the plane. 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. 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. So look at me, Salahi said. I keep thinking, Here it comesI am fixing to see what a terrorist looks like face to face, Neely, who was twenty-one at the time, said. It was a grand compound, white stone decorated with lavish carpets and chandeliers. They were afraid that I would kill some people.. If I say that I am angry, it is seen as a threat to national security., The next day, Salahi brought Wood and me to a friends wedding party, hosted by Mauritanias best radiologist. by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Larry Siems ( 32 ) $17.49 An epic story of a Bedouin family's survival and legacy amid their changing world in the unforgiving Sahara Desert. It was such a good feeling.. Salahi didnt know their real names, and never heard from them again. . It was not every day, the tortureI would say maybe twice a week. While other detainees were mercilessly beaten, strung up by their limbs, and sexually assaulted, he added, all they did was strike me at different times in the face, and hit me against the concrete wall.. I executed orders. At first I thought it was an armed robbery, but, when the airport police approached, the guy behind me flashed a magic badge, which immediately made the policemen retreat. Salahi and his brothers were thrown into the back of a van and driven to a detention site. What if he is, like, I hate these sons of bitches for locking me up? For some thirty hours, Salahi was strapped to a board. With the assistance of German intelligence, Abdellahi told me, we started collecting the maximum amount of information. But, after the diary came out, they learned that Mohamedou is not high value, hes just a guy who got fucked over for years. He added, Guantnamo has a long shadow for everyonenot just the detainees.. Salahi was no dirt farmer. When they finished, Salahis lawyers delivered a CD-rom with the scanned pages to Larry Siems, a writer and a human-rights advocate, who has written extensively on government misconduct in the aftermath of 9/11. He walked into the sleeping area and found Salahi lying in the fetal position, shaking. 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. And then it behaves the same way as the last. When he asked the new regime about Salahi, he said, they just replied, We didnt kidnap himit was the previous government that did it. The Mauritanian is stunningly tragic and leaves audiences with a host of questions about how its events were allowed to take place, but another notable issue is why the Obama administration blocked Mohamedou Ould Slahi's release from Guantanamo Bay. Yacoub had a large family and a small salary, so, when Salahi was released, he started paying Yacoub to do occasional tasks. But because Slahi remains in US custody, unlike the others, his is the only first-person account that the government had the power to redact. Slahi's rare contacts with the cousin, and an occasion in which he allowed travelers from near his hometown to stay the night only to learn they were Al Qaeda soldiers were among the . But, after Salahi returned to Germany, they had scarcely been in touch. Salahi, I wish I were not part of this shit, he said. But his guard suspected otherwise. I thought they were going to execute me, Salahi wrote. He recalled his political views as being whatever Fox News told us. He didnt know the difference between a Hindu, a Sikh, and a Muslimhe had never met one. But, in practice, IRFing was often done as a form of revenge, initiated liberallyfor example, when a detainee was found to have two plastic cups instead of one, or refused to drink a bottle of Ensure, because he thought that he was being given poison. Oh, Allah, help me! For Wood, the trip became something more complicated than a visit to a friend. Although Wood had introduced himself to Salahi as Stretch, his nickname from the sawmill, Salahi had quickly learned his real name, as well as those of the other guards. During interrogations, detainees were forced to perform mock satanic rituals, or were draped in the Israeli flag. A similar phone call, followed by a second transaction, took place in December, 1998. In isolated, poor regions of South Carolina, coming from an lite familyoffereda feeling of impunity. Yacoub climbed into the passenger seat. The tape would fall off our uniforms, Wood recalled. I Tweeted it. He spent 14 years imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay after being falsely accused of playing a role in . Couch never met Salahi, but, while Zuley was torturing him, Couch received summaries of each new confession. One of the men momentarily removed Salahis blindfold, and shined a flashlight into his eyes. Their questions were much the same, Salahi wrote, but the whole environmental setup made me very skeptical toward the honesty and humanity of the U.S. interrogators. Thank you for a wonderful evening!, Ive done it, Igor! Anyway, he said, I know you are part of the Millennium Plot.. The cousins had married a pair of sisters, and so they were now also brothers-in-law. Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Couch truly believed Mohamedou Ould Slahi was guilty. February 27, 2019. It sucked that I didnt have the freedom to travel, Salahi recalled in the military hearing. Soon afterward, in Guantnamo Bay, Salahi saw his own face on a TV screen. As they left baggage claim, Salahi later wrote in his diary, my hands were shackled behind my back and I was encircled by a bunch of ghosts who cut me off from the rest of my company. The man confined there was referred to by his detainee number, 760. 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