At first, Salahi was relievedhe assumed that the Americans had come to understand his irrelevance to 9/11 and the Millennium Plot, and that he was being sent back to Mauritania. 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. 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. It was a temporary facility, he explained, while he raises money to build a mosque. Des milliers de livres avec la livraison chez vous en 1 jour ou en magasin avec -5% de rduction ou tlchargez la version eBook. 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. In Arabic countries there are oodles, but in Europe and Canada one is very rare.. By the time Wood left, he had come to accept his guards and interrogators as family. In 1988, Salahi graduated from high school and won a scholarship to study engineering in Duisburg, Germany. On the other end of the line was a man whose voice he hadnt heard in more than eleven years. (His wife returned to Nouakchott.) Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. (Forty people remain in the camp, at an annual cost of some ten million dollars a detainee.) Salahi handed him some leftover ibuprofen from the Guantnamo pharmacy. . After a few months, he signed up for the Oregon National Guard, on the military-police track. No chairs, no lying down, no more access to his prescription pain medication. The mosque had thousands of attendees, a few of whom belonged to an Algerian jihadi group that had come to the attention of the French and Canadian intelligence services. In the eighties, he and a younger cousin, a slender poet named Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, spent their evenings at a local caf, where the owner showed videos of the Palestinian struggle and the jihad in Afghanistan, which the Soviet Union had invaded in 1979. 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. 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.. I was living literally in terror. His electronic files will be deleted from the computer, his paper files will be packed up. What followed was a period of experimentationoverseen by psychologists, lawyers, and medical personnelat C.I.A. It was silly, but if you get scared you are not you anymore. For some thirty hours, Salahi was strapped to a board. In public, the Bush Administration and its military leadership asserted that Guantnamo was filled with men who would stop at nothing to destroy the U.S. You will have a job at the snap of a finger, his friend told him. 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. I want to ask you a favor, if it is O.K. Mohamedou Ould Slahi: Yes, I read the same story, and I was sort of excited. They took off from Uzbekistan and flew into northern Afghanistan, over the snow-capped mountains of the Hindu Kush. 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. His wife and children left first; once they had settled in Nouakchott, Abu Hafs said, the challenge was to transport himself thousands of miles without being detected, arrested, or subjected to rendition. The men never abused Salahi, but, as the days became weeks, he wished that they would just turn him over to the United States, where, he assumed, he could at least challenge the legal grounds of his detention. 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. On May 22nd, Salahis lead F.B.I. He and Salahi were smitten with the Al Qaeda narrative, that a ragtag group of mujahideen, carrying light weapons and hiding in caves, were taking on a superpower in the defense of all Muslims. No adult in Woods life had ever looked so frightened and so vulnerable. I thought hed be back in no time, he told me. He denied involvement with terrorism and was never charged with a crime. 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. (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. When he refused to back out of the interview, Wendy insisted that he wear an on-camera disguise. In return, they passed along messages from Salahi, which they had invented, and assured the family that Salahi was well. 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. Around that time, Abu Hafs explained, it became clear to him that the Mauritanian President would be open to his return from Iran. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was born on 21 December, 1970, is a Writer. Through the window I started to see the sand-covered small villages around Nouakchott, as bleak as their prospects, he wrote. I thought there would be a lot of formalities, especially for a terrorist suspect such as myself, but nothing like that happened, Salahi wrote. According to The Exile, a comprehensive account of post-9/11 Al Qaeda, by the investigative journalists Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, who gained access to Abu Hafss diaries, he ghostwrote most of Osamas speeches, religious judgments, and press releases. In 1998, bin Laden wrote Abu Hafs into his will. When Abu Hafs reached Quetta, in Pakistan, he found the citys private hospital filled with injured Al Qaeda members. 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. That day, the leader of Salahis interrogation came in. But, with every day going by, the optimists lost ground, he wrote. A year in Echo Special shattered Woods ideas about his post-military future. 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. After the failed attack, Canada began to aggressively investigate the Montreal cell. Three years into his captivity Slahi began a diary, recounting his life before he disappeared into U.S. custody and daily life as a detainee. 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. Military personnel took his biometric information, and logged his health problemsincluding a damaged sciatic nervethen led him to a cell. You very much become a child again.. Taliban fighters walked the streets, confident in the support they received from Pakistans intelligence service. 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. 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?. But his guard suspected otherwise. Bin Ladens family was en route to Pakistan, and Abu Hafs needed to make arrangements for their protection. It was my way of telling him, Man, I trust you. . Nice to meet you, Wood said. I said, No. (Investigators later determined that Ressam had left Montreal for a safe house in Vancouver on November 17thnine days before Salahi arrived in Canada.) Abu Hafs wouldnt say which countries he had travelled throughonly that, in the first two, the Mauritanian Ambassador met him on the tarmac, walked him through the airport, and stayed with him until he got on the next plane. By the following day, the lead Senegalese officer was convinced that there was no reason to hold Salahi. Salahi figured that this was how bin al-Shibh had ended up naming him as a high-level Al Qaeda recruiter. Recently released "Guantnamo Diary" author Mohamedou Slahi gives a heartfelt thanks to his supporters in this moving new video, filmed where he belongs: at home with his family. One day, Zuley walked into Salahis cell, carrying a pillow. It was the first time in my thirty-year CIA career that I had ever heard an order to kill someone, Schroen wrote. Wood had come to see Islam in much the same way that many of the detainees did: as the only thing that couldnt be stripped from them. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. (All charges were later dropped, and Yee was honorably discharged. Walid, who was sixteen, stayed behind. One of Salahis friends, who was now living in Canada, suggested that he move to Montreal. On July 17, 2003, a masked interrogator told Salahi that he had dreamed that he saw other detainees digging a grave and tossing a pine casket with Salahis detainee number into it. 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 . 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. (For the past sixty years, the Cuban government has sought to nullify the agreement, and it refuses to cash the checks.) I just couldnt wait to see who the detainees were, he told me. His diary is not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious. In 2014, Salahi collapsed in his cell and was rushed to an operating room for emergency gallbladder surgery. 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. Amanda, who lives in Europe, was pregnant, and Salahi would miss the birth of his son. 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. A Guantanamo bay convict claims he was forced to have sex with female interrogators in his recently published memoir. 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. Like most countries in West Africa, Mauritania had gained independence from France a decade earlier. As we walked to the house, Abu Hafs al-Mauritani came out of a nearby mosque, dressed in a white turban and long robes. He sought structure and disciplinea life of pride, purpose, and clarity of mission. Eventually, Salahi would be allowed access to a small patch of soil outside his trailer, where he tended sunflowers, basil, sage, parsley, and cilantro. Have you heard of Nelson Mandela? Wood recalled Salahi saying. In fact, Id say, without you, September 11th would never have happened, one of Salahis interrogators told him. To be honest I can report very little about the next couple of weeks, Salahi wrote, because I was not in the right state of mind., Soon afterward, an interrogator e-mailed Diane Zierhoffer, a military psychologist, with concerns about Salahis mental health. I really have no questions for you, because I know your case, Abdellahi told him. International . Ive finally found a way to reuse all our wine corks!, If youd like, I can set you up with a bullet I dodged.. 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. 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. He listed his accomplices and added, thanks to Canadian Intel, the plan was discovered and sentenced to failure. After years of holding out in interrogations, he had become what the classified dossier described as a highly cooperative font of intelligenceone of the most valuable sources in detention. He described Al Qaedas financial involvement in credit-card fraud and drug smuggling, and also the groups investment in unwitting companies in Bosnia, Canada, Chechnya, Denmark, England, Germany, Mauritania, and Spain. He drew organizational charts, with the names and operational roles of key figures, and supplied intelligence on jihadi cells and safe houses all over Europe and West Africa. Salahi had spent the morning reviewing a speech he had prepared for events hosted by Amnesty International and Physicians for Human Rights. In addition to Salahis abdominal pain, and regular migraines, he still suffers from night terrors. The lesson seemed to be that the right mix of atonement and seniority in a terrorist organization can give the kind of leverage that is unavailable to men like Salahi. The whole time I was thinking, you know, What does he really think of us? he recalled. The anteroom was filled with Mauritanian dignitaries and lites, all men, sitting on couches that lined the perimeter. The days of I think we all became friends. But he wasnt sure that Salahi believed him. 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. One night in October, 2016, Woods phone rang while he was in a Safeway in Portland. He had spent the morning of the worst terrorist attack in American history lying on his mothers couch, high on painkillers after a tonsillectomy, but when he emerged from the haze he was angry, focussed, and longing for deployment. . Neither of them knew that the United States had asked Mauritanias President to hand over Salahi to a rendition team. An earlier version of this story misidentified Canadas Security Intelligence Service. Ressam told investigators that he had planned to detonate suitcases in a crowded terminal at Los Angeles International Airport. 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. 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 . The next time the Red Cross delegation visited Guantnamo, a representative reported that medical files are being used by interrogators to gain information in developing an interrogation plan., Female interrogators groped him. In Nouakchott, Abdellahis men detained Salahi again in the fall of 2001, at the request of the Americans. I really think that he's a good man. You must be very tough. He often wakes up shaking, crying, and grinding his teeth. His order for release in 2010 was appealed by the Obama administration, and resulted in another six years in the camp. Salahi, I wish I were not part of this shit, he said. Yee, who had converted to Islam in the early nineties, sent a request up the chain of command, but was rebuffed. Walid was a prodigious poetin Nouakchott, he had won several awardsand when bin Laden met him he was impressed by his eloquence and conviction. 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. English was his fourth language. Slahi told me he is hearing voices now, the interrogator wrote. One day in the spring of 2012, Abu Hafs slipped out of custody during a visit to the gym. Zuley read Salahi a letter, later shown to be forged, stating that his mother was in U.S. custody and might soon be transferred to Guantnamo. 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. 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. What would we tell the Mauritanians? the diplomat replied. 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. 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. How can I render uninterrupted interrogation that has been lasting the last 7 years. The point is to pave, seal, and waterproof it, to preserve its lifespan, he said. Mauritanian immigration officials detained him for an hourhere was a giant American, all muscle and veins, saying that he had met Salahi in Guantnamo Baybut eventually one of Salahis nephews persuaded them to let Wood in. Published now for the first time, Guantanamo . 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. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 50, has never been convicted of any crime or even charged with any offence. The next morning, he found two pinhole cameras. He grew up measuring political eras by military coups1978, 1979, 1984changes in power that did little to alter the ways in which Mauritanians experienced power. (The C.I.A. Within a few months, dozens of Al Qaeda members were living in Tehran, undergoing occasional interrogations, aware that their Iranian hosts could betray them at any moment. 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. I stand for 8-10.. Soon afterward, they travelled together to Sudan, where bin Laden ran a construction company and a jihadi training camp, and sped around Khartoum in bin Ladens white Mercedes. 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. 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. You know, when you just fall asleep and the saliva starts to come out of your mouth? Salahi said. Yacoub had a large family and a small salary, so, when Salahi was released, he started paying Yacoub to do occasional tasks. Mohamed Elmoustapha Ould Badre Eddine, a left-wing member of the Mauritanian Parliament, conducted inquiries of his own, but made no progress. There, Abu Hafs spent two months in custody, as a formality. 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. The tape would fall off our uniforms, Wood recalled. Government censors redacted names, dates, locations, and other sensitive or embarrassing information. A former leader of several provinces explained to me that Abu Hafs, bin Ladens former Sharia adviser, is now an adviser to the President. After that, whenever anybody tried to explain anything to the guy, he always asked, Compare it with the rat: Is it bigger? They were afraid that I would kill some people.. It was a grand compound, white stone decorated with lavish carpets and chandeliers. 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 International Committee of the Red Crosswhich has access to many of the worlds most notorious detention sites, some of them in countries where there is no rule of lawhad recently sent representatives to Guantnamo, but the base commander, citing military necessity, had refused to allow them into Echo Special. Born on 21 December 1970 in a small town in Mauritania, Ould Slahi received a scholarship to study in Germany in 1988. Bet youll think twice next time about saying you know me, he said, laughing. He left the Oregon National Guard, and started working night shifts at a twenty-four-hour gym near Portland. -From Guantnamo Diary, by Mohamedou Ould Slahi It was a simple prayer. Where are you from? one of them said. After roughly three weeks, F.B.I. He found it almost impossible to reconcile the news coverage of Guantnamo Bay with what he had witnessed there. were entering a period of self-reflection; during the next several years, internal and congressional investigations would expose many of the worst abuses that had been inflicted on Salahi and other men in custody. ), Later that month, a military lawyer named Diane Beaver drafted a legal justificationdescribed later by a congressional inquiry on torture as profoundly in error and legally insufficientfor a set of abusive interrogation techniques. in the United States on February 12. 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. In 2005, Mauritania had a military coupthe typical way in which power has changed hands since independence. 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. Once they do, he will disappear and never be heard from again. Salahi was told to imagine the worst possible scenario he could end up in, and that he would soon disappear down a very dark hole. Man, youve had a really tough time of it, he said. Mohamedou Ould Slahi fights for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for . Salahi was no dirt farmer. At the beginning, Mohamedou wanted to be docile and sweet, he said. And Steves interest is to impress the girls. The interrogations covered the same topics as before: Abu Hafs; Al Qaedas training camps in 1992; the Millennium Plot. Everyone, including myself, was very nervous, he said. In the minutes before the first detainees set foot on Guantnamo, you could literally hear a pin drop, Brandon Neely, a military-police officer, recalled, in an interview with the Guantnamo Testimonials Project, at the University of California, Davis, in 2008. His whole reputation rested on this fiction. The sessions Wood witnessed were calm and courteous, with Salahi attempting to answer everything asked of him. Alicia Florrick has been a good wife to her husband, a former state's attorney . Wood, who was twenty-three, had recently learned that his girlfriend was pregnant. His turban was still damp from where his wife had cleaned off other peoples blood. It was such a good feeling.. 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. 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