If the detainee dies, youre doing it wrong. (Fredman has disputed the accuracy of the meeting minutes. I want bin Ladins head shipped back in a box filled with dry ice. On his third visit, he told two Saudi students that he wanted to become a Muslim. T ahar Rahim plays Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who is arrested in 2001 in his native Mauritania with the connivance of his own government, and eventually spirited to the US prison camp on the Cuban . . I was scared to ask too many questions, I was scared to read a book on Islam while I was in there, or show too much interest., Woods concerns were not unjustified. 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. The first rumors of a planes operation began circulating among Al Qaeda leaders in 1999. Id read about Muslim heroes who faced the death penalty, head up, he wrote. 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. ), Each detainee was given a number, and, on August 4th, thirty-four of those numbers were called, including Salahis. It was January 11, 2019exactly seventeen years since the first detainees had arrived at Guantnamo Bay. 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. I was thinking, Those were the worst people the world had to offer?, Investigators had the same question. The men were dragged out of their cells. 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. Wood walked into the main area, which housed the guards; through a door was the prisoners sleeping space. You could always tell when someone got IRFed, as the detainees throughout the camp would start chanting and screaming, Neely recalled. I really think that he's a good man. 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. Salahi noted that Steve snores likehow do you call it?a steam train.. In June, 2004, the Supreme Court ruled that Guantnamo detainees could challenge the grounds for their detention. Salahi told him that he was now home. Les carnets de Guantanamo, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Eric Betsch, Michel Lafon. He added that such an attack would be a betrayal of Al Qaedas agreement with the Taliban government, which had provided sanctuary for the group on the understanding that it would do nothing to provoke a full-scale U.S. invasion. In Amman, Jordan, Salahi was hooded and taken to a detention facility in the headquarters of the countrys General Intelligence Directorate. According to Fallon, The Northern Alliance would jam so many detainees into Conex shipping containers that they started to die of suffocation. Detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi joined the terrorist organisation Al-. He told me he hated Jews also. 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. Salahi underwent daily interrogations. As two M.P.s dragged him to the holding area, someone tossed his prosthetic leg out of the bus. Wood is six feet three, with a shaved head, a shy, stoic manner, and the musculature of an lite bodybuilder. The abuse wound down slowlyno more hitting, but no comfort items, either, and no uninterrupted periods of rest. 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. I Tweeted it. . El delito por el que Mohamedou es acusado es haber sido un miembro activo de al Qaeda, haber recibido entrenamiento en Afganistn a principios de los 90, reclutar a tres de los . From the floor of Parliament, Badre Eddine noted that Mauritania has no extradition treaty with the United States. He was terrifiedhe wanted to go back to Canada, where interrogators behaved within the bounds of the law. 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. A lot of these prisoners were actually looking forward to being handed over to the Americans, figuring it would be pretty obvious they werent Al Qaeda. Yet hundreds of them were sent to Guantnamo Bay, which ended up housing seven hundred and eighty people. 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. But, when the list of detainees finally arrived, he recalled, my reaction was, What the fuck? 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. The plane landed at sunset. 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. I hope you think of us as more than just guards. I felt this decision stemmed from the commands desire to be able to tell the media that we gave all detainees a Quran out of sensitivity to their religious needs, he wrote. 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.. They really know who is who, and, as a result, they were very reluctant to torture me. 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. He wrote a letter to his wife and children, but there was no way to send it, and so he kept it in a pocket in his robes. By the following day, the lead Senegalese officer was convinced that there was no reason to hold Salahi. Salahi and Wood sat in front of a laptop, with the Webcam on, and Skyped into a room in Washington. By the time Wood left, he had come to accept his guards and interrogators as family. 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. The students acted as Woods witnesses. In his fourth year of U.S. detention, Mohamedou Ould Slahi bonded with one particular Guantnamo guard over prison meals, American TV and the quirky movie, "The Big Lebowski." Meanwhile, his subordinates continued to collect bribes from Salahis family. The whole time I was thinking, you know, What does he really think of us? he recalled. The man confined there was referred to by his detainee number, 760. After. A similar phone call, followed by a second transaction, took place in December, 1998. The sessions Wood witnessed were calm and courteous, with Salahi attempting to answer everything asked of him. . 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. Youve still got, like, a solid eight inches.. . (His wife returned to Nouakchott.) Pendant des mois, il a crit ses mmoires . For many years, Mohamedou Slahi was considered one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world. One day in November, after burying several friends, Abu Hafs sought out an Al Jazeera journalist. Mohamedou Ould Slahi: I always told myself, at the end of the day, I didn't do wrong to anyone. During interrogations, an intelligence officer, known among the detainees as William the Torturer, forced Salahi into stress positions that exacerbated his sciatic-nerve issues. Soon afterward, a jihadi who had attended the same mosqueand who the Americans believed had met Salahiattempted to smuggle explosives in the trunk of a car across the U.S. border; his plan was to detonate suitcases inside Los Angeles International Airport, in what became known as the Millennium Plot. In 1998, he had travelled to Afghanistan, and spent a year in Al Qaeda training camps, where he learned to handle weapons and explosives. 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. The guards also brought him books from the library, including the Bible, which he had requested, he wrote, because I wanted to study the book that must more or less have shaped the lives of the Americans.. But he subsequently forgot the log-in information, and so he never saw a reply. The detainees protested, and so it was decided that every detainee who refused the Quran would be IRFed. While the detainees were receiving medical treatment for their post-IRF injuries, the Qurans were placed back in their cells. The evidence against him lacked depth, but investigators considered its breadth conclusive. 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. Yacoub climbed into the passenger seat. WASHINGTON - The U.S. government has transferred Mohamedou Ould Slahi to his native Mauritania, where he is to be reunited with his family. As he read about Islamic history, he began to seek clarity in the Quran itself. But the Germans saw no reason to detain or question him. Abu Hafs spent the next decade in relative luxury, exercising alongside foreign diplomats in one of Tehrans swankiest gyms, and looking after bin Ladens sons along with his own. Its not looking good, the presiding military officer replied. 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. She told me that she thought he was doing something really dangerousthat people might think Steve was sympathetic to someone who was involved in 9/11, and go after him, her, and their baby daughter. Salahi handed him some leftover ibuprofen from the Guantnamo pharmacy. I was, like, What else have they lied about? 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. Forces recruits who speak grammatically incorrectly, he wrote on a scrap of paper inside his cell. For 14 years and two months . Amanda, who lives in Europe, was pregnant, and Salahi would miss the birth of his son. 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. It had been five years since the Taliban had taken over most of the country, and televisions were banned. . When my turn came, two guards grabbed me by the hands and feet and threw me toward the reception team, Salahi wrote. 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. Al Qaeda had by this time transformed into an international terrorist organization that was launching attacks in East Africa and the Middle East. For the rest of the interrogation session, he was forced to look at photos of corpses from the aftermath of the attacks. 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. (In his diary, Salahi wrote, I was eager to let my predator know, I am, I am.) When the conversation was over, the Jordanians blindfolded Salahi and put a set of soundproof earmuffs on him. Medical records indicate that he weighed a hundred and nine poundsaround thirty per cent less than his normal weight. Salahi was on a diet of Ensure nutrition shakes and antidepressants. That was my thinkingthat he was sufficiently intelligent and well informed to help any intelligence service that might ask him for help.. He knew what he expected to hear. In 2008, he met a woman named Wendy at a bar. had raided a hotel in Khartoum. On a Tuesday afternoon in September, 2001, one of bin Ladens messengers sought out Salahis cousin, Abu Hafs, and told him to keep an eye on the news. It was my way of telling him, Man, I trust you. Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Steve Wood met in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2004. 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. I pictured my family already having prepared the Iftar fast-breaking food, my mom mumbling her prayers while duly working the modest delicacies, everybody looking for the sun to take its last steps and hide beneath the horizon, Salahi wrote. The interrogator added that, if Salahi didnt start talking, he would be buried on Christian, sovereign American soil., On August 2nd, military records show, an interrogator told Salahi that he and his colleagues are sick of hearing the same lies over and over and over and are seriously considering washing their hands of him. 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. Now, in a phone call, Amanda suggested edits for Salahis speechthat he take out lynching, for example, and make his remarks more graciousand Salahi accepted all of them. Notably absent is any mention of the Millennium Plot, or any allegation that Salahi had committed a crime. black sites and military facilities. But, when he wanted to engage, he spoke with a worldly, provocative humor that Wood found appealing. 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. ECCHR, which represents Mohamedou Ould Slahi together with partner lawyer Matthias Lehnert, calls on the authorities to speed up the procedure for issuing his visa and to conclude it swiftly. 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. Each time, the minister liedeven after the Red Cross had started delivering Salahis letters from Guantnamo to his family. They went through checklists of questions that had been developed by their superiors, and seemed impervious to nuance, or to the notion that some detainees may have been sent there in error. 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. You will have a job at the snap of a finger, his friend told him. Slahi . 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. You very much become a child again.. In all this time, his family had had no official confirmation of his whereabouts. In the U.S., it was morning. When Wood agreed to talk about Salahi for a TV documentary, Wendys parents staged an intervention. 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. But, after Salahi returned to Germany, they had scarcely been in touch. 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. But Salahi wanted to live free of surveillance, and he decided to leave the country. He also contacted another guard from Echo Special. Her wife was on hand to support her last month, as she scooped the coveted Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe for her efforts in The Mauritanian. 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. The Ambassador called Nouakchott, and the foreign minister ordered the Embassy to fabricate a passport, using a fake name. Now, faced with their own incompetence, Fallon wrote, interrogators were quick to blame classic Manchester resistance tactics!. ), One night, Salahi awoke to the sound of a tiny hole being drilled into his wall. Ad Choices. And in. Salahi was asked about innocuous exchanges from intercepted e-mails and phone calls, as if they had been conducted in code. This is the exact opposite of whats supposed to happen. French actor Tahar Rahim is making headlines for his performance in the film The Mauritanian, which chronicles the true life story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi. 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. When he refused to back out of the interview, Wendy insisted that he wear an on-camera disguise. Case of Mohamedou Ould Slahi. Amna Nawaz: He was tortured by his American interrogators, subjected to solitary confinement,. It was cheaper to fly to Dakar than to Nouakchott, and his brothers drove three hundred miles to meet him there. Seven months later, his deployment ended. 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. After a hustled day of tackling a myriad of issues and directly contributing to the global war on terrorism, it reads, fun awaits. Officers could partake in pottery classes, paintball, rugby, tennis, and softball, or exercise in several pools and gyms. When the documents were complete, Abu Hafs said, the Mauritanian government booked him on a commercial route that connected through three countries. Salahi didnt know their real names, and never heard from them again. Mohamedou Ould Salahi has a net worth of $5.00 million (Estimated) which he earned from his occupation as Writer. 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. Neuer Kurator des African Book Festival Berlin" wird Mohamedou Ould Slahi Houbeini. I'm a really big believer in Joe Biden. 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.. One night in October, 2016, Woods phone rang while he was in a Safeway in Portland. The Taliban was rapidly losing ground. 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. Slahi says his interrogator could not sell his false confessions up the chain of command. I told him I have no problem with the Jews, either, man. He was very silly. He wore handcuffs, leg shackles, earmuffs, blackout goggles, a surgical mask, and a bright-orange jumpsuit. On October 17, 2001, Abu Hafss madrassa took a direct hit from a missile. The first man off the bus had only one leg. Then, he wrote, the plane landed, the doors opened, and the warm Cuban sun hit me gracefully. Did this license lead Alex Murdaugh to commit fraud after fraudand then kill his wife and son? -From Guantnamo Diary, by Mohamedou Ould Slahi It was a simple prayer. Nevertheless, he spent 14 years of captivity in America's notorious Guantanamo Bay prison,. The Americans supplied the questions, and the Jordanians extracted the responses, often through coercive means. Several young men mentioned Salahi as a contact in Germany. In July, 2001, according to Scott-Clark and Levy, the authors of The Exile, Abu Hafs handed bin Laden his resignation letter. But he did not consider himself a member of Al Qaeda, or a facilitator of its operations. . Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. It was Ramadan again. This is my daughter. Peace be upon you. They shook hands. What would we tell the Mauritanians? the diplomat replied. 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. 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. 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. English accepts more curses than any other language, and I soon learned to curse with the commoners., As a matter of professionalism, Wood resolved from the outset to bury in the back of his mind what he had heard of Salahis past. They named him Ahmed, and Salahi asked Wood to be the godfather. A former leader of several provinces explained to me that Abu Hafs, bin Ladens former Sharia adviser, is now an adviser to the President. Who are these guys? Most of the names were Afghan or Pakistani, and the Arabs who were on the list certainly werent recognizable to me and my colleagues who had been working Al Qaeda for years. A few weeks later, after McFadden visited the detention camp, he concluded that the detainees were essentially nobodies. He told me, There was not anyone approaching even the most liberal interpretation of a high-value detainee., In Afghanistan, the U.S. military was inadvertently presiding over a kidnapping-and-ransom industry. I was happy because the one-ton stack of paper the U.S. government had provided the Senegalese about me didnt seem to impress them, Salahi wrote. One was a self-help book about finding happiness in a hopeless place. Before his deployment, he had aspired to become a police officer. Soon afterward, Canadian investigators came to the apartment and questioned him about the Millennium Plot. At the time, Slahi had been in captivity for two years, accused of acts of terrorism. In November of that year, Salahi moved to Montreal, where he began leading prayers at a prominent mosque. He left the Oregon National Guard, and started working night shifts at a twenty-four-hour gym near Portland. 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. Today Slahi, who is now 50, resides back home in Mauritania, though he is far from free. Several of his co-workers were missing fingers, and the manager took every opportunity to denigrate the staff. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 50, has never been convicted of any crime or even charged with any offence. What followed was a period of experimentationoverseen by psychologists, lawyers, and medical personnelat C.I.A. This winter, Steve Wood set off for Mauritania. Salahi withdrew the cash and gave it to friends who were travelling to Nouakchott, and they delivered it to Abu Hafss family. By now, Wood was no longer dating Summers mother. During interrogations, detainees were forced to perform mock satanic rituals, or were draped in the Israeli flag. It was silly, but if you get scared you are not you anymore. The journey to Nouakchott took almost three days, with long layovers in New York and Casablanca. In 2005, during the military hearing, Salahi had urged the presiding officer not to send him back to Mauritania. Before dawn, Salahi was taken to an interrogation room. 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. When Abu Hafs reached Quetta, in Pakistan, he found the citys private hospital filled with injured Al Qaeda members. Back on land, Salahi was carried to Echo Special, the trailer, which would be his home for several years. Near the airport parking lot, Salahi stood in a light-blue boubou, the traditional Mauritanian robe, with a turban to obscure his identity. The journey to Nouakchott took roughly an hour, tracing the Mauritanian coastto the left the Atlantic, to the right the Sahara. 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! Walid, who was thirteen, started reading bin Ladens pamphlets. Ramadan was approachingwhen the men leading prayers read aloud the entire Quran during the course of a lunar cycleand, Salahi recalled, my friend said, We need you here in Canada because we have no Hafez, the Arabic word for a man who can recite the Quran from memory. His diary is not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious. Wood left for the airport at 4 A.M. Salahi spent much of the day watching YouTube compilations of the worst American Idol auditions. He wore a broad smile and a white jumpsuit, and moved cautiously toward Wood. An officer shouted Code Red! into a radio, and the Internal Reaction Force team raced to the scene and hog-tied him. Salahi, who hadnt been home since 1993, was filled with nostalgia and dread. But I changed my mind after Guantnamo, he told me. When Yee went on leave, he flew to Jacksonville, Florida, where he was interrogated and arrested, then blindfolded, earmuffed, and driven to a Navy brig in South Carolina. One of the men momentarily removed Salahis blindfold, and shined a flashlight into his eyes. Wood became secretive about his calls with Salahi; Wendy began to suspect that he was having an affair. Soon afterward, in Guantnamo Bay, Salahi saw his own face on a TV screen. He was forced to swallow salt water, and, every few minutes, the men packed ice cubes between his clothes and his skin. Mohamedou Ould Slahi fights for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for . 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