I tried to press the topic with Salahi, but it was as if his transfer from Guantnamo had carried with it a kind of transposition of restraint, from shackles to self-policing. 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. Then one of them shouted, Pillow, you can come out now! A short man in his mid-thirties stepped into the guards area, unshackled. In time, Yee came to believe that Islam was systematically used as a weapon against the prisoners. Guards mocked the call to prayer, and manipulated Islamic principles of modestyby having female guards watch naked detainees in the showers, for exampleto create tension as an excuse to exact violence. But, hey, I have to cope with it. 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. You must forget your fear to achieve anything., Last summer, Salahi completed an online course to become a certified life coach. . . 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. One day in the spring of 2012, Abu Hafs slipped out of custody during a visit to the gym. 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. It was the pretty blond interrogator bringing in these disks with footage from Al Qaeda and Taliban training camps in Afghanistan, Wood recalled. A fourth was Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the attack cordinator; while in C.I.A. He was forced to swallow salt water, and, every few minutes, the men packed ice cubes between his clothes and his skin. 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. 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. No adult in Woods life had ever looked so frightened and so vulnerable. black sites and military facilities. Ahmed is a camel herder, as his father was before him and as his young son Abdullahi will be after him. 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 . Wood walked through the camp to Echo Special proud to be part of a serious national-security operation. -From Guantnamo Diary, by Mohamedou Ould Slahi It was a simple prayer. I was thinking, Those were the worst people the world had to offer?, Investigators had the same question. Its not looking good, the presiding military officer replied. "And then what they -- pretty much told him, 'This is a bunch of B.S.'" Slahi's life changed . Mohamedou Ould Slahi or Salahi (Arabic language: ) (born December 31, 1970) is a Mauritanian who has been detained at Guantnamo Bay detention camp since August 4, 2002. In July, 2001, according to Scott-Clark and Levy, the authors of The Exile, Abu Hafs handed bin Laden his resignation letter. He wanted to ask Salahi more about its contents, but he suspected that there were microphones and cameras in the cell. The evidence against him lacked depth, but investigators considered its breadth conclusive. Published now for the first time, Guantanamo . Several of his co-workers were missing fingers, and the manager took every opportunity to denigrate the staff. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge. 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. 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. He also believed that Slahi's interrogators had broken the law tormenting him physically and sexually, and. Fmr. In Nouakchott, Abdellahi waited for updates from the C.I.A. Soon afterward, in Guantnamo Bay, Salahi saw his own face on a TV screen. And Id say, No matter what you did in the past, man, youve saved thousands of lives. Id always say that, and hed just shake his head, like, Bullshit., One night, when Salahi was asleep, Wood heard sounds that reminded him of a child having a nightmare. He slept in remote villages, and entrusted his life to Afghan sheepherders who were presumably unaware of the twenty-five-million-dollar bounty on his head. There, Schroen contacted the leaders of the Northern Alliance, an armed group that had spent years fighting the Taliban, with little external support. investigations and was on a no-fly list, and that several men who had attended the Masjid As-Saber had been convicted on terrorism charges. A lot of wise people tell me, Mohamedou, shut the fuck up, dont ask for papers, dont ask. In time, he became suspicious that Salahis confessions had been elicited through torture, and were therefore tainted evidence. Salahi noted that Steve snores likehow do you call it?a steam train.. 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 It will look worse.. So far, so good.. After three months, he left Afghanistan and returned to Duisburg, where he worked in a computer-repair shop while he finished his degree. 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! Several young men mentioned Salahi as a contact in Germany. 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. He didnt harbor any particular animosity toward Muslims, but he had absorbed his mothers belief: If its not from Jesus then it must be from the Devil. After completing the requirements to become an M.P., Wood enrolled in a criminal-justice program at a nearby community college. 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. 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. All afternoon, guards screamed at the detainees to shut up and walk faster, called them sand niggers, and said that their family members and countries had been obliterated by nuclear bombs. The U.S. government gathered that in 1991, when Salahi was twenty, he swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden, and the following year he learned to handle weapons at an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. But, when the list of detainees finally arrived, he recalled, my reaction was, What the fuck? One was a self-help book about finding happiness in a hopeless place. But his family members were eager for Salahi to return, and so they told him that his mother was ill. On January 21, 2000, Salahi boarded a flight to Senegal. I thought it was a new U.S. method to suck intels out of your brain and send them directly to a main computer which analyzes the information, he wrote. Each time, the minister liedeven after the Red Cross had started delivering Salahis letters from Guantnamo to his family. One day they would deprive him of food, and the next theyd force him to drink water until he vomited. The Mauritanian: The True Story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi The 50-year-old was detained for 14 years without being charged with a crime By Laura Martin 31 Mar 2021 This year sees the 20th. Throughout 2002 and 2003, whenever the foreign minister visited the parliamentary chamber, Badre Eddine demanded to know Salahis whereabouts. At that time, Slahi was seen as one of the most important detainees at Guantanamo with allegations that he had helped organise the 9/11 attacks. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantnamo Diary (New York: Little, Brown, 2015). He added that, as the worlds most powerful democracy, the United States had the means to uphold and pressure other countries to uphold human rights. When Mohamedou Ould Slahi walked away, unshackled, from a U.S. military plane in Nouakchott, Mauritania, the author of Guantnamo Diary hoped he was finally free. I dont remember whether I hit the floor or was caught by the other guards. One of the seven authors was Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man who was held without charge for 14 years, during which time he was repeatedly tortured, before his release in 2016. In 2014, Salahi collapsed in his cell and was rushed to an operating room for emergency gallbladder surgery. And Mohamedou probably thought I was thinking the same thingthat, to me, he was just a job, and nothing more. So, during one of his final shifts, Wood broke protocol and showed Salahi a photo of Summer. The proceeds from his book were paying for a nieces studies in Dubai and a nephews masters degree in applied mathematics at a university in Kuala Lumpur. 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. According to one of Salahis brothers, Abdellahi told the family that Salahi was being kept in a detention facility in the desert, far from Nouakchott. In addition to Salahis abdominal pain, and regular migraines, he still suffers from night terrors. The lack of progress, development, and freedom in Mauritanian society inspired in Salahi a righteous anger toward autocracy and corruption, and a desire to fight for something bigger than himself. It was silly, but if you get scared you are not you anymore. 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. One of Salahis friends, who was now living in Canada, suggested that he move to Montreal. It had been five years since the Taliban had taken over most of the country, and televisions were banned. I executed orders. 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. The man confined there was referred to by his detainee number, 760. 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. 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. Slahi told me he is hearing voices now, the interrogator wrote. (The phrase Work sets you free appeared on the gates of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. I hope you think of us as more than just guards. The journey to Nouakchott took roughly an hour, tracing the Mauritanian coastto the left the Atlantic, to the right the Sahara. 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. For two weeks, he worked as a guard in the cellblocks, monitoring men who had been captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan. Nevertheless, he spent 14 years of captivity in America's notorious Guantanamo Bay prison,. Since he had learned it in captivity, some of his earliest phrases were I aint done nothing, cavity search, fuck this, and fuck that. My problem is that I had been picking the language from the wrong peoplenamely, U.S. The prosecutor assigned to Salahis case was a lieutenant colonel named Stuart Couch, who had retired from the military before 9/11. He recalled, I took the pen and paper and wrote all kinds of incriminating lies about a poor person who was just seeking refuge in Canada and trying to make some money so he could start a family. 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. Salahi tried to convince the skeptics that their arrival in Cuba was a blessing, and that they would be treated fairly and exonerated by the American justice system. He was terrifiedhe wanted to go back to Canada, where interrogators behaved within the bounds of the law. When Salahis female interrogators came in for a game of Monopoly, Salahi always threw the match. Why is standing limited to 4 hours? he wrote in the margin, referring to a proposed stress position. When Wood agreed to talk about Salahi for a TV documentary, Wendys parents staged an intervention. Alicia Florrick has been a good wife to her husband, a former state's attorney . Notably absent is any mention of the Millennium Plot, or any allegation that Salahi had committed a crime. 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. At the beginning, Mohamedou wanted to be docile and sweet, he said. Al Qaeda had by this time transformed into an international terrorist organization that was launching attacks in East Africa and the Middle East. He never told Wendy about his conversion. 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. Then the men were loaded onto an airplane. In that meeting, Abu Hafs challenged bin Laden on Quranic grounds, arguing that the scale of civilian casualties could not be justified in Islam. After she converted to Islam, they married in a religious ceremony. He wanted no part of a system in which he might have control over another persons liberty. During a lull in conversation, he turned to Salahi and, gesturing toward Wood and me, said, So, you studied in the United States?. Amanda, who lives in Europe, was pregnant, and Salahi would miss the birth of his son. (During the layover in Casablanca, he had drunk a Red Bull and twenty-two shots of espresso.) Popularly known as the Writer of Mauritania. Btihal Remli for The New York. Instead, he began to wonder whether what he was actually protecting at Guantnamo was one of the governments darkest secrets: that its highest-value military detainee was being held essentially by mistake, and that his isolation in Echo Special was intended to cover up the hell that had been inflicted upon him. Mauritanian hospitals dont have the capacitythey typically send such patients to Francebut what Salahi didnt know was that his repatriation would not amount to the restitution of his rights. You could always tell when someone got IRFed, as the detainees throughout the camp would start chanting and screaming, Neely recalled. In Robertsons assessment, the governments evidence about Salahi was so attenuated, or so tainted by coercion and mistreatment, or so classified, that it cannot support a successful criminal prosecution. He concluded, Salahi must be released from custody.. Like, really stressful. They slept under mosquito nets in Salahis bedroom, and woke up to the sound of a bleating sheep. Mitchell argued that, by reverse-engineering this program, interrogators could overwhelm whatever resistance training a detainee might have absorbed from the Manchester manual. Near the airport parking lot, Salahi stood in a light-blue boubou, the traditional Mauritanian robe, with a turban to obscure his identity. Sometimes the sessions veer into his own coping mechanismsthe routines he made up to fill his days in Guantnamo, for example, when we had nothing to look forward to except the world we created inside my cell., Earlier this month, Amanda gave birth to a son. Meanwhile, his subordinates continued to collect bribes from Salahis family. Not long afterward, in mid-November, Salahis boss sent him to Mauritanias Presidential palace, to install Internet routers and update the phones. With a movie based on his ordeal. (He escaped through a kitchen door.) I arrived just before the sunset prayers. No, Im an ex-prisoner of Guantnamo Bay, Salahi replied, instantly ending the conversation. An elderly white convert warned him to avoid a couple of other white converts, who dressed in religious clothing and talked about wanting to participate in the jihad. Later that day, Neely and his partner brought an elderly detainee to the holding area and forced him to his knees. Soon afterward, Canadian investigators came to the apartment and questioned him about the Millennium Plot. . I dont like power, he said. 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. See if you think his captivity was just. 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, after Salahi returned to Germany, they had scarcely been in touch. 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. After 14 years. During interrogations, an intelligence officer, known among the detainees as William the Torturer, forced Salahi into stress positions that exacerbated his sciatic-nerve issues. A Guantanamo bay convict claims he was forced to have sex with female interrogators in his recently published memoir. By the time Wood left, he had come to accept his guards and interrogators as family. I asked Abu Hafs to tell me the name printed in his diplomatic passport, assuming that the identity was no longer valid. I want bin Ladins head shipped back in a box filled with dry ice. Wood contacted one of Salahis lawyers, using a made-up name and a new e-mail address, to inquire about Salahis well-being and the status of his case. Did this license lead Alex Murdaugh to commit fraud after fraudand then kill his wife and son? But Salahi wanted to live free of surveillance, and he decided to leave the country. Abdellahis men confiscated his passport, once again citing a request by the Americans. Mohamedou Ould Slahi (em rabe: ) (nascido em 21 de dezembro de 1970) um mauritano que foi detido no campo de deteno de Guantnamo Bay sem acusao de 2002 at sua libertao em 17 de outubro de 2016. 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. 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. His father died in a plane crash when he was three years old, and his mother brought him and his brothers up in Molalla, Oregon, a lumber town about an hour south of Portland. A year in Echo Special shattered Woods ideas about his post-military future. Neuer Kurator des African Book Festival Berlin" wird Mohamedou Ould Slahi Houbeini. It is basically subject to perception. I want to be able to show bin Ladins head to the President. Black added that he and Bush wanted to avoid the spectacle of a courtroom trial. But a friend helped him find work installing Internet routers for a telecommunications company. Salahi saw a mentally ill old man subjected to this method. It sucked that I didnt have the freedom to travel, Salahi recalled in the military hearing. They drove to the airport in silence, in Abdellahis black Mercedes. A similar phone call, followed by a second transaction, took place in December, 1998. Les carnets de Guantanamo, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Eric Betsch, Michel Lafon. But he subsequently forgot the log-in information, and so he never saw a reply. 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. One day, Salahi started requesting paper from his guards. 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 . 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. Abdellahi had bought him a new outfit, but Salahi had refused to eat, and the fabric was loose on his shoulders. Several Mauritanians had travelled to battlefields in Afghanistan and Bosnia, and Mahfouz Walid had become an important figure in Al Qaeda; he now went by the nom de guerre Abu Hafs al-Mauritani. I am not in Afghanistan, Salahi replied. (His name was actually Richard Zuley; he was a Chicago police detective, working as a military contractor, who has an extensive record of abusing suspects until they confessed to crimes that they hadnt committed. English was his fourth language. The release comes 14 years after he was first brought by the United States to the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Ad Choices. How did they do it?. So that scared me away, he said. All rights reserved. (All charges were later dropped, and Yee was honorably discharged. Oh, Allah, help me! Force-feeding during the daylight hours of Ramadan, when Muslims are supposed to fast. The night terrors kept coming. He was a victim of an extremely rare crime: that a country had kidnapped its own citizen and handed it over to a foreign country, outside of the justice system, outside of all legal processes, Brahim Ebety, the Salahi familys lawyer in Nouakchott, told me. The tape would fall off our uniforms, Wood recalled. Then, he wrote, the plane landed, the doors opened, and the warm Cuban sun hit me gracefully. NOUAKCHOTT - Mohamedou Salahi is beaming.His welcoming smile is a sign that our conversation, delving into his recent past, may not be so excruciating after all. Mohamedou Ould Salahi has a net worth of $5.00 million (Estimated) which he earned from his occupation as Writer. Salahi and Wood went around the room shaking hands with bankers, merchants, prefects, doctors. In fact, Id say, without you, September 11th would never have happened, one of Salahis interrogators told him. Since then, I have received it, eaten it, and paid for it! You can receive millions of dollars, one of the flyers said. Twelve days later, a group of men charged into Salahis cell with a snarling German shepherd. (They were no longer brothers-in-law, as Salahi and his wife had divorced.) 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. In the spring of 1999, French intelligence officers asked their Canadian counterparts if they could question Ressam about jihadi activities in Europe, but the Canadians couldnt locate him, because he had entered the country on a fake passport. In late 2003a period that Salahi described in a letter as where my brake broke looseCouch struggled to keep up with the constant stream of information. 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. He often turned to a verse by the Iraqi poet Ahmed Matar: I stood in my cellWondering about my situationAm I the prisoner, or is it that guard standing nearby?Between me and him stood a wallIn the wall, there was a holeThrough which I see light, and he sees darknessJust like me he has a wife, kids, a houseJust like me he came here on orders from above. But, after Abu Hafs used bin Ladens phone to call a different cousin in Nouakchott, Abdellahis subordinates took the cousin into custody, and tortured him for two months. Ahmed is a camel herder, as his father was before him and as his young son Abdullahi will be after him. 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. My cell expanded, the lights became brighter, colors more colorful, the sun shone warmer and gentler, and everyone around me looked friendlier, he wrote. Everyone, including myself, was very nervous, he said. Around that time, after a long period without contact, Abu Hafs called Salahi from bin Ladens satellite phone. Wood started sporadically attending prayers. How can I render uninterrupted interrogation that has been lasting the last 7 years. 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. 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.. 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. Der hat eine recht interessante Vita, war bei Al-Qaida ttig und soll whrend seiner . He gently held Salahis shoulder, and said, Everythings O.K. Salahi shook his head, and clicked his tongue in disagreement, but refused to speak. The detainee introduced himself as Mohamedou Salahi, then reached for a handshake, and said, Whats up, dude?. Wood is six feet three, with a shaved head, a shy, stoic manner, and the musculature of an lite bodybuilder. Wood told Salahi that he was working for his brothers construction company, repairing bridges. The next day, Wood pressed him to talk about the episode, but Salahi wouldnt elaborate. Military personnel took his biometric information, and logged his health problemsincluding a damaged sciatic nervethen led him to a cell. He was left for hours in the Caribbean sun. Steve Wood walked into Echo Special in the spring of 2004 unaware of everything that had happened before. (Back in the 80s, during the Afghanistan insurrection, he unwittingly worked with the group. He knew what he expected to hear. Look him up, dude. 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. . 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. In the first edition of Guantnamo Diary, Siems had included an authors note: In a recent conversation with one of his lawyers, Mohamedou said that he holds no grudge against any of the people he mentions in this book, that he appeals to them to read it and correct it if they think it contains any errors, and that he dreams to one day sit with all of them around a cup of tea, after having learned so much from one another. They took off from Uzbekistan and flew into northern Afghanistan, over the snow-capped mountains of the Hindu Kush. 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. 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