The room was large and well-furnished, Salahi wrote, with a portrait of the President conveying the weakness of the law and the strength of the government. In the course of the next several days, Abdellahi and his men, citing the concerns of the American government, interrogated Salahi about his time in Afghanistan, his contact with his cousin Abu Hafs, and the Millennium Plot. But Amanda is an American, and so their son is now a citizen of the country whose purported values Salahi wants to believe in but has never seen. No, its not looking good at all, Salahi said. In 2005, Mauritania had a military coupthe typical way in which power has changed hands since independence. The latter, the actor last seen on our screens playing a serial killer in . I thought there would be a lot of formalities, especially for a terrorist suspect such as myself, but nothing like that happened, Salahi wrote. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the author of an internationally bestselling memoir that detailed the torture he endured as a detainee in Guantnamo Bay, says he has been denied a passport by. 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. Not wanting to lose their bounties, the captors sprayed the tops of the boxes with machine guns to open ventilation holes. He wanted no part of a system in which he might have control over another persons liberty. By Ben Taub April 15, 2019 Mohamedou Salahi spent more. But the government had abandoned the theory that Salahi knew about 9/11 before it happened. The interrogations covered the same topics as before: Abu Hafs; Al Qaedas training camps in 1992; the Millennium Plot. I told him I have no problem with the Jews, either, man. Eventually, Salahi would be allowed access to a small patch of soil outside his trailer, where he tended sunflowers, basil, sage, parsley, and cilantro. 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. Having accepted his guards, Salahi wrote, the next phase of captivity was getting used to the prison, and being afraid of the outside world.. In September, 2002, Army officers started referring to Guantnamo as Americas Battle Lab., Early in the afternoon of October 2, 2002, a group of interagency lawyers and psychologists met to come up with a framework that used psychological stressors and environmental manipulation to foster dependence and compliance. The C.I.A. When I shared Abu Hafss account of his return with the senior U.S. diplomat, she replied, Its the first Im hearing any of it. The Mauritanians didnt inform the United States of his return until probably weeks later, she said. Instead, the men stripped him naked, strapped a diaper on him, and swapped out his shackles for a heavier set. After that, whenever anybody tried to explain anything to the guy, he always asked, Compare it with the rat: Is it bigger? Badre Eddine had spent some four decades organizing grassroots campaigns against the practice of slavery and other human-rights violations, and for this he had spent years in remote detention sites, under a succession of authoritarian regimes. . A lot of wise people tell me, Mohamedou, shut the fuck up, dont ask for papers, dont ask. 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. had raided a hotel in Khartoum. And, by the way, I pay my boy, he added, unprompted. Der hat eine recht interessante Vita, war bei Al-Qaida ttig und soll whrend seiner . You must forget your fear to achieve anything., Last summer, Salahi completed an online course to become a certified life coach. We knew he wasnt a threat. Where once he had struggled to forgive himself for enjoying Salahis company, he now felt bad about having to lock the door at the end of each shift. 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. His mother dated a string of alcoholics and addicts, and took the children to an evangelical church on Sundays; Pat Robertsons sermons blasted from the living-room TV. 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. We had done all our investigations, and we found nothing against Salahi, Abdellahi told me. While he was held at Gitmo, Slahi was repeatedly tortured in an . You trust the handcuffs and everything, but, no matter what, wed never be with him one on onethere would always be a partner, Wood told me. Salahi had been living in a cell practically since the beginning of the invasion, nine months earlier. But, after Salahi returned to Germany, they had scarcely been in touch. By the time Wood left, he had come to accept his guards and interrogators as family. 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. Then one of them shouted, Pillow, you can come out now! A short man in his mid-thirties stepped into the guards area, unshackled. Soon afterward, in Guantnamo Bay, Salahi saw his own face on a TV screen. A panel of U.S. national security, intelligence, and other officials cleared Slahi for release in . One of the arresting agents suggested that Salahi drive his own car to the station, so that he could drive himself home afterward. Every time there was a hurricane warning in Guantnamo Bay, Salahi dreamed that the storm had wiped away the prison camp, and everyone, detainees and captors alike, was fighting side by side to survive, he wrote. In 1988, Salahi graduated from high school and won a scholarship to study engineering in Duisburg, Germany. 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. He knew what he expected to hear. What if he is, like, I hate these sons of bitches for locking me up? In 1998, he had travelled to Afghanistan, and spent a year in Al Qaeda training camps, where he learned to handle weapons and explosives. By the end of the boat ride, Salahi was bleeding from his ankles, mouth, and wrists. He was forced to swallow salt water, and, every few minutes, the men packed ice cubes between his clothes and his skin. in the United States on February 12. They said I was bringing shame upon the family, and protecting a terrorist, Wood recalled. But I wasnt the decider. But, hey, I have to cope with it. The detainee introduced himself as Mohamedou Salahi, then reached for a handshake, and said, Whats up, dude?. The U.S. had fired cruise missiles at Al Qaeda-linked targets in Sudan and Afghanistan, and, in a bid to capture Abu Hafs, the C.I.A. Salahi noted that Steve snores likehow do you call it?a steam train.. Theyd ask me, Whos in there?, and Id say, I dont know, probably somebody famous.. Bush Administration lawyers had taken the position that enemy combatants could be held indefinitely, without trials, and that in order for something to qualify as torture it must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death. By the end of the following year, Salahi knew more about classified security operations than any private American citizen. The Pentagon had reported that he was dead. came to much the same conclusion.) I felt so bad, and kept praying silently, Nothings gonna happen to you dear brother.. 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. black sites and military facilities. Slahi says his interrogator could not sell his false confessions up the chain of command. Wood was the second of three boys. A private jet landed, and out climbed a Jordanian rendition team. Salahi was on a diet of Ensure nutrition shakes and antidepressants. Salahi became Slahi. So began a life in which governments treated Salahi in accordance with their own mistakes. Under the new regime, Abdellahi, the spy chief, was demoted, and given the task of investigating corruption and malfeasance within the security services; the standard path for accountability required Abdellahi to investigate himself. Salahi also pushed him to research Western foreign-policy blundersfor example, that in 1953 the American and the British intelligence services had orchestrated a coup in Iran, overthrowing a popular Prime Minister in order to prop up a tyrannical, pro-Western Shah. When Wood tried to search for 760 in Guantnamos detainee database, he found nothing. Soon afterward, Canadian investigators came to the apartment and questioned him about the Millennium Plot. James Mitchell, the C.I.A. (The phrase Work sets you free appeared on the gates of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Assalaamu alaikum, he said to Mohamedou. Not yet released in France, this film, which tells the story of this man's . If you say that you are angry, it is understood as an emotion, he said. 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. 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. Another officer tried to build rapport with Salahi by speaking to him in German. The Taliban was rapidly losing ground. I hope you treasure every minute of strangers telling you to treasure every minute., I ordered my meal more than an hour ago! Salahi and I sat on either side of the leader of a political party that has more than a hundred and fifty seats in Parliament. As a teen-ager, Salahi memorized the entire Quran. WASHINGTON - The U.S. government has transferred Mohamedou Ould Slahi to his native Mauritania, where he is to be reunited with his family. On most days, he searched Salahis name online, hoping to learn more about the case, and to make sense of his own deployment to Echo Special, to no avail. The doors of my house are open.. I was educating myself on the world. But, because Salahis trailer was a national secret, Wood kept a cordial distance from most of the other guards. I asked Abu Hafs to tell me the name printed in his diplomatic passport, assuming that the identity was no longer valid. According to Fallon, most of the interrogators were basically conscripts who would walk into a room for the first time thinking the detainee was just waiting to be cracked open and they were the next Jack Bauer, the fictional protagonist of 24, who used abusive tactics to elicit information and save his city from terrorist attacks. As we walked to the house, Abu Hafs al-Mauritani came out of a nearby mosque, dressed in a white turban and long robes. Although he towered over Salahi, he hesitated before taking his hand, and when he did he noted how delicate Salahi was. and the G.I.D., but received none. The Mauritanian tells the story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, a man of Mauritanian origin who spent 14 years in the notorious American military detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he. Yee, who had converted to Islam in the early nineties, sent a request up the chain of command, but was rebuffed. With the assistance of German intelligence, Abdellahi told me, we started collecting the maximum amount of information. 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 . Steve Wood walked into Echo Special in the spring of 2004 unaware of everything that had happened before. (His wife returned to Nouakchott.) But, with every day going by, the optimists lost ground, he wrote. You will have a job at the snap of a finger, his friend told him. Salahi came to think of his interrogators as acting out a Mauritanian folktale in which a blind man is given the gift of a single, fleeting glimpse of the world. His mother was dead, and so was one of his brothers, but there were teen-age nieces and nephews whom he was meeting for the first time. They prayed together, ate together, and enjoyed a picnic of bread and tea in the dunes of the Sahara. During interrogations, an intelligence officer, known among the detainees as William the Torturer, forced Salahi into stress positions that exacerbated his sciatic-nerve issues. After the prayer session, Abu Hafs led me into his living room, and for four hours he detailed his falling-out with bin Laden, his whereabouts and activities in the aftermath of 9/11, and his relationship with Mauritanias President. And now he belongs to the Americans.. For the first time, he described his experiences without fear of retribution. with you, and that is to tell me five things that you are grateful for today, he told one of them. How does he live? The United States leases the land beneath the Guantnamo Bay detention facility from Cuba, for four thousand and eighty-five dollars a year, under an agreement signed after the Spanish-American War. How does he behave? Have you heard of Nelson Mandela? Wood recalled Salahi saying. Like, really stressful. They slept under mosquito nets in Salahis bedroom, and woke up to the sound of a bleating sheep. 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. He was accused of being a part of the Al-Qaeda by the American government. He no longer derived much solace from Islam, and rarely prayed. But two months later, when Salahi returned to Mauritania and described his experience of the jihad, Walid resolved to set off on his own for Afghanistan. Then a sergeant major pulled him aside for a brief interview, and assigned him to work the night shift in Echo Special, a secret, single-occupancy unit that had been built to house the United States militarys highest-value detainee. Because he had no experience with weapons, Al Qaeda personnel sent him to the Al Farouq training camp, near Khost, where he learned how to use a Kalashnikov rifle and launch rocket-propelled grenades. 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. The days of Out here, Im probably only drinking seven or eight coffees per day, he told me. Afghanistans civil war entered a new stage, with rival Islamist groups vying for control, and Salahi wanted no part of it. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Abu Hafs, Salahis cousin and a senior Al Qaeda official, evaded capture. Mauritania is much bigger than Guantnamo Bayyou can move around. But I insist on freedom., Another liberty Salahi identified as having been taken from him is that of expressing the full range of human feelings. See what it did to his family., A job posting depicts life as an intelligence officer in Guantnamo Bay as a rewarding challenge with incredible surroundingssunsets, beaches, iguanas, pristine Caribbean blue. One day in the spring of 2012, Abu Hafs slipped out of custody during a visit to the gym. Its hard to sit there and laugh and chat with the guy, if hes actually that bad, Wood told me. He never told Wendy about his conversion. Schroen recalled, When I began to distribute moneytwo hundred thousand dollars here, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for thisI think that they were convinced that we were sincere. In the next few weeks, Schroens C.I.A. The plan, conceived by James Mitchell, a psychologist working on contract for the C.I.A., was to induce learned helplessness in humans by combining an individually tailored regimen of torture techniques with environmental manipulation. 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. . In the spring of 1992, Salahi returned to Afghanistan. Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Steve Wood met in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2004. 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. More detainees have died at Guantnamo than have been convicted of a crime. In 1996, when Abu Hafs was twenty-one, he drafted bin Ladens most important fatwa: an eleven-thousand-word document excoriating the Saudi Kingdom and warning the U.S. Secretary of Defense that Al Qaedas adherents have no intention except to enter paradise by killing you. The fatwa was Al Qaedas declaration of war against the United States. On August 13th, Donald Rumsfeld authorized the interrogation plan for Salahi. But the call to jihad interrupted his studies. When he discovered the forged letter from Zuleys team, saying that the United States had captured Salahis mother, he resigned from the case. Wood compliedhe felt that it was the least he could do for Salahi. This is enough money to take care of your family, your village, your tribe for the rest of your life. A common bounty was five thousand dollarsfar more money than most Afghans earned in a yearand the result was an explosion of human trafficking by various armed groups, Mark Fallon, the deputy commander of Guantnamos Criminal Investigation Task Force, wrote in his memoir, Unjustifiable Means, which was heavily redacted before being published, in 2017. I was thinking, Those were the worst people the world had to offer?, Investigators had the same question. His family moved to the capital of Nouakchott when he was a child, where he excelled in school and earned a scholarship to study electrical engineering at Gerhard-Mercator University in Duisburg, Germany. The Bush Administration had decided that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to the war on terror, which meant that the men captured abroad could be deprived of the rights of prisoners of war. Wahrheit macht frei, the officer saidthe truth sets you free. Mohamedou Ould Sah es uno de tantos casos que estn sufriendo en una prisin, acusados de delitos que no cometieron. Twenty-hour interrogations. Before his deployment, he had aspired to become a police officer. They stripped, and rubbed their bodies all over his, and threatened to rape him. 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. (During the layover in Casablanca, he had drunk a Red Bull and twenty-two shots of espresso.) Soon afterward, Steve and Wendy separated. I arrived just before the sunset prayers. Even if the military believed he was innocent, he figured that he knew too much about classified torture programs to be let out into the world. In Amman, Jordan, Salahi was hooded and taken to a detention facility in the headquarters of the countrys General Intelligence Directorate. Eventually, Salahi understood that bin al-Shibh was one of the three men who had stayed at his apartment in Germany for a night, in October, 1999; the other two had become 9/11 hijackers. Owing to his expertise as an electrical engineer, the dossier concludes, Salahi was also able to describe Al Qaedas elaborate communications systems, including radio relay, couriers, encryption, phone boutiques, and satellite communication links to laptops. But the U.S. government was sure there was more to be gleaned from him; the dossier says that he still has useful information on a variety of subjects, including the 9/11 attacks, and lists twenty-two additional areas of potential exploitation. Military officials considered him the poster child for the intelligence effort at Guantnamo., As a result of Salahis coperation, his private cell was now stocked with what the government referred to as comfort items. After the pillow came soap, towels, a prayer cap, and prayer beadsby the time Steve Wood arrived, Salahi also had books, a television, a PlayStation, and an old laptop, on which he killed time playing chess and watching DVDs. On September 26th, Schroen and six other officers loaded an aging Soviet helicopter with weapons, tactical gear, and three million dollars in used, nonconsecutive bills. He bolted through the changing room and into the street, dressed in his gym clothes, and hailed a taxi to the Mauritanian Embassy in Tehran. 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. But the climactic descriptions of what it took for him to "break" are almost . True, you didnt choose this family, nor did you grow up with it, but its a family all the same, he wrote in his diary. But the Germans saw no reason to detain or question him. Salahi didnt know their real names, and never heard from them again. TV crews were present at meals, and an interviewer showed up at Salahis apartment, recorder in hand, and asked Wood, who still hadnt told his brothers that he is a Muslim, to comment on his favorite Quranic passages, and to share his thoughts on the legacy of the Prophet Muhammad. The guards, who were officially prohibited from interacting with him, began asking questions. A panel of U.S. national security, intelligence, and other officials cleared Slahi for release in July after determining that he poses As at Guantnamo, he often worked at night. No prayers, no information about the direction of Mecca. 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. In time, Wood began to think of everything he had known before meeting Salahi as a narrow-minded myth of American superiority, notable for its omissions of overseas misadventures. The examiner described Salahi, whose answers contradicted everything he had confessed to Zuley in the preceding weeks, as eager to prove that he is providing accurate information. The results were decisive: No deception indicated.. He and his comrades were told that many of the detainees were responsible for 9/11 and, given the opportunity, would strike again. And in. The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga - Mohamedou Ould Slahi 2021-02-23 An epic story of a Bedouin family's survival and legacy amid their changing world in the unforgiving Sahara Desert. Torture has been prohibited by international law, but the language of the statutes is written vaguely, Jonathan Fredman, a senior C.I.A. 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