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. One was a self-help book about finding happiness in a hopeless place. His detention at Guantnamo Bay grabbed a lot of attention worldwide. I went back to my tent and laid down to go to sleep. 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. Salahi was led to a small private aircraft. He was very silly. 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. 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. And I didnt confirm or deny anything, Wood told me. 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. There, Schroen contacted the leaders of the Northern Alliance, an armed group that had spent years fighting the Taliban, with little external support. 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. Instead, they are tried by secret military commissionsif they are tried at all. He wasnt sure what he wanted out of the visithe knew only that curiosity eclipsed his misgivings. They asked me do I know Ahmed Ressam. 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. The cellbetter, the boxwas cooled down to the point that I was shaking most of the time. 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. Mitchell argued that, by reverse-engineering this program, interrogators could overwhelm whatever resistance training a detainee might have absorbed from the Manchester manual. But, when he wanted to engage, he spoke with a worldly, provocative humor that Wood found appealing. They didnt tell me, because they were scared, Salahi recalled. In addition to Salahis abdominal pain, and regular migraines, he still suffers from night terrors. More detainees have died at Guantnamo than have been convicted of a crime. His specialty was in brutalizing detainees who were considered important, but not valuable enough to get them tickets to the secret CIA prisons, Salahi wrote. What if he is, like, I hate these sons of bitches for locking me up? The F.B.I. 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. It was the first time Wood had encountered the Quran. 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. It was the pretty blond interrogator bringing in these disks with footage from Al Qaeda and Taliban training camps in Afghanistan, Wood recalled. In return, they passed along messages from Salahi, which they had invented, and assured the family that Salahi was well. 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. 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. A security guard handed him a filthy black turban, to hide his face during the drive to the secret-police headquarters. Defense attorneys have accused the government of denying them access to evidence, leaving secret recording equipment in client meeting rooms, and infiltrating their legal teams; a few years ago, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who may face the death penalty, recognized a linguist on his own defense team from a C.I.A. (They were no longer brothers-in-law, as Salahi and his wife had divorced.) If the detainee dies, youre doing it wrong. (Fredman has disputed the accuracy of the meeting minutes. 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. 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. Soon afterward, Canadian investigators came to the apartment and questioned him about the Millennium Plot. But the climactic descriptions of what it took for him to "break" are almost . On one page, he recalled the day he got his nickname, when an interrogator brought him a pillow. 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. 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. Some guards saw an opportunity to torment the detaineesby tossing the Quran into the toilet, for example, or by breaking the binding under the guise of searching for weapons. Desecration of the Quran provoked riots in the cellblocks, which resulted in IRF teams storming into the cells and beating up detainees. No adult in Woods life had ever looked so frightened and so vulnerable. agents visited Salahis cell. . In all this time, his family had had no official confirmation of his whereabouts. But he thought, What the fuck is this? In 1994, as the director of state security, he opened an investigation into Nouakchotts jihadi scene. After lunch, I stood in the reception area, watching Mauritanian politicians and tribal leaders kiss Abu Hafs on both cheeks and thank him for coming. The 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. 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 had started to lose feeling and it would have made no difference anyway.. Its not looking good, the presiding military officer replied. 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. Siems was doing an interview about the diary, and in that moment Salahi finally felt as if he was beginning to take back the narrative of his life. . As he was led away for questioning, he said: "Don't worry mom, I'll be back soon." He has been charged with no crime, but Slahi never returned. Today Slahi, who is now 50, resides back home in Mauritania, though he is far from free. One of the arresting agents suggested that Salahi drive his own car to the station, so that he could drive himself home afterward. But, on the base, Fallon and his colleagues referred to most detainees as dirt farmers. Lehnert lamented, It takes an Army captain to send someone to Gitmo, and the President of the United States to get them out.. One night in October, 2016, Woods phone rang while he was in a Safeway in Portland. Is this something that happens to people who have little external stimulus such as daylight, human interaction etc???? smaller?, One of the F.B.I. Der hat eine recht interessante Vita, war bei Al-Qaida ttig und soll whrend seiner . After she converted to Islam, they married in a religious ceremony. team left Guantnamo, and the torture began. When I visited their house, a real-estate agent had removed all the family photographs and replaced them with catalogue art, to make it easier for prospective buyers to think of the house as a blank slate. 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. Wood was the second of three boys. It is basically subject to perception. The abuse wound down slowlyno more hitting, but no comfort items, either, and no uninterrupted periods of rest. In 2005, during the military hearing, Salahi had urged the presiding officer not to send him back to Mauritania. 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. By the time Wood left, he had come to accept his guards and interrogators as family. I was, like, Maybe hes right. (In fact, the 9/11 plot was organized more than a year before bin al-Shibh visited Duisburg.) 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 agents walked into the cell. All rights reserved. In Amman, Jordan, Salahi was hooded and taken to a detention facility in the headquarters of the countrys General Intelligence Directorate. 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. Guantnamo Diary and the American Slave Narrative. Salahi was a precocious student; after school, he used to steal chalk from the classroom and return to Bouhdida, a dusty, unplanned neighborhood in Mauritanias capital, Nouakchott, to re-create the days lessons for kids who couldnt afford an education. Salahi landed in Montreal on November 26, 1999. 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. 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. The videos had been pulled from jihadi Web sites, or captured by intelligence officers during raids, and Salahis role was to identify the people in them. He gently held Salahis shoulder, and said, Everythings O.K. Salahi shook his head, and clicked his tongue in disagreement, but refused to speak. Nevertheless, he spent 14 years of captivity in America's notorious Guantanamo Bay prison,. Canadas Security Intelligence Service began a surveillance operation focussing on Salahi and his associates, but Salahi noticed two pinhole cameras poking through his apartment walls and left the country. After a near-fatal stabbingand decades of threatsthe novelist speaks about writing as a death-defying act. He wore handcuffs, leg shackles, earmuffs, blackout goggles, a surgical mask, and a bright-orange jumpsuit. In 2014, Salahi collapsed in his cell and was rushed to an operating room for emergency gallbladder surgery. 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. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian national, was detained for 14 years at Guantnamo Bay. When Wendy saw the post, she was outragedbut also somewhat relieved, since it partly explained his secretive behavior. For the next month, he was kept in total darkness; his only way of knowing day from night was to look into the toilet and see if there was brightness at the end of the drain. When the documents were complete, Abu Hafs said, the Mauritanian government booked him on a commercial route that connected through three countries. 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. The next day, Wood pressed him to talk about the episode, but Salahi wouldnt elaborate. 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. The evidence against him lacked depth, but investigators considered its breadth conclusive. For years, Mohamedou Salahi was imprisoned on the grounds of being a suspected collaborator in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. 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. An image of bin Ladens face adorned the windshield, and Abu Hafs spent much of the journey to the Iranian border, some four hundred miles, wondering whether it was a Wanted poster or a tribute. Soon afterward, Salahis brothers were released with instructions to return to Mauritania. Conversion to Islam requires only that, in the presence of Muslim witnesses, you declare the ShahadaThere is no God but God, and Muhammad is his prophetand that you believe it in your heart. 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. See if you think his captivity was just. His wife, two-year-old son and brother live here. Slahi says his interrogator could not sell his false confessions up the chain of command. He denied involvement with terrorism and was never charged with a crime. Couch never met Salahi, but, while Zuley was torturing him, Couch received summaries of each new confession. In the military hearing, Salahi described the torture program in vivid detail. A lot of wise people tell me, Mohamedou, shut the fuck up, dont ask for papers, dont ask. Wahrheit macht frei, the officer saidthe truth sets you free. Wed try to cover it back up, real quick, but eventually we were, like, fuck it. had raided a hotel in Khartoum. "And then what they -- pretty much told him, 'This is a bunch of B.S.'" Slahi's life changed . He walked into the sleeping area and found Salahi lying in the fetal position, shaking. He had come to think of himself as a dead camel in the desert, when all kinds of bugs start to eat it. Most of the interrogations were conducted by the F.B.I., whose questions now centered on establishing a connection between Salahi and 9/11. 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. It was cheaper to fly to Dakar than to Nouakchott, and his brothers drove three hundred miles to meet him there. Military doctors offered to take care of it, but Salahi declined; his release date was only a couple of months away, and he wanted to get the surgery on his own terms, once he was free. 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. One night in October, 1999, a friend of Salahis asked him to host three Muslims who were passing through Duisburg. In fact, Id say, without you, September 11th would never have happened, one of Salahis interrogators told him. In Nouakchott, Abdellahi waited for updates from the C.I.A. He couldnt stop talking because he didnt know where he was, nor why, Salahi wrote. By Marisa Egerstrom. One day, German officers questioned one of Salahis friends. The Mujahideen are committed to not carry out any military activity in Mauritania, the letter saysas long as the Mauritanian government released imprisoned fighters, abstained from attacking Al Qaeda cells abroad, and paid the group between ten and twenty million euros per year, to compensate and prevent the kidnapping of tourists. (The Mauritanian government has denied that it negotiates with terrorist groups.). Abdellahi had bought him a new outfit, but Salahi had refused to eat, and the fabric was loose on his shoulders. Salahi had deleted the contents of his phone. 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. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. I want to ask you a favor, if it is O.K. The 58-year-old actress, who won the Best Supporting Actress prize for her role in The Mauritanian, appeared on screen for the virtual ceremony with her wife Alexandra Hedison and their dog,. It was such a good feeling.. But his guard suspected otherwise. I thought there would be a lot of formalities, especially for a terrorist suspect such as myself, but nothing like that happened, Salahi wrote. 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 it wasnt enough; the government wanted him to link other people in Canada to various plots. 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. 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. 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. The man confined there was referred to by his detainee number, 760. But with these people you cannot be likable. 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. Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Steve Wood met in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2004. According to Wood, the guard drafted a note, but he decided not to submit it. 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. He identified himself as Captain Collins, a Navy officer who had been sent to Guantnamo by the White House. 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. 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?. One day, after an interrogator kicked a Quran across the floor, detainees organized a mass suicide attempt. Oh, Allah, help me! One day, they had coffee at a hotel, by the pool, with the legal team of a current Guantnamo detainee. 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. Alicia Florrick has been a good wife to her husband, a former state's attorney . 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. When I heard him say that, I knew the truth wouldnt set me free, because Arbeit didnt set the Jews free, Salahi recalled. Yacoub climbed into the passenger seat. . Mohamed Elmoustapha Ould Badre Eddine, a left-wing member of the Mauritanian Parliament, conducted inquiries of his own, but made no progress. Thank you for a wonderful evening!, Ive done it, Igor! Still, Salahi found his Jordanian interrogators to be highly knowledgeable, and they developed a kind of mutual respect. By Ben Taub April 15, 2019 Mohamedou Salahi spent more. Wood left for the airport at 4 A.M. Salahi spent much of the day watching YouTube compilations of the worst American Idol auditions. According to Fallon, The Northern Alliance would jam so many detainees into Conex shipping containers that they started to die of suffocation. ), The government no longer attempted to prosecute Salahinobody had touched the criminal case since Couch withdrewbut it argued that he should nevertheless be detained indefinitely. Two intelligence officers, including Yacoub, arrived and said that Abdellahi needed to see him again. Soon afterward, in Guantnamo Bay, Salahi saw his own face on a TV screen. The punishment for talking to another detainee was to be hung by the wrists, feet barely touching the ground. But, after the diary came out, they learned that Mohamedou is not high value, hes just a guy who got fucked over for years. He added, Guantnamo has a long shadow for everyonenot just the detainees.. So empty., In recent months, the push for Salahis passport has taken on new urgency. 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. While Salahi was being tortured, James Yee, the Muslim military chaplain, discovered that he and the interpreters at Guantnamomany of whom were Muslim Americans, with Middle Eastern backgroundswere being spied on by law-enforcement and intelligence officers. It will look worse.. Later that day, Neely and his partner brought an elderly detainee to the holding area and forced him to his knees. 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. The doors of my house are open.. (After 9/11, the directorate acted as a proxy jailer for the C.I.A.) Neuer Kurator des African Book Festival Berlin" wird Mohamedou Ould Slahi Houbeini. Salahi didnt know their real names, and never heard from them again. You must forget your fear to achieve anything., Last summer, Salahi completed an online course to become a certified life coach. But by then the Soviet Union had collapsed, and, while Salahi was in training, the Afghan government lost its Russian support. I thought hed be back in no time, he told me. That December, shortly before his twentieth birthday, Salahi boarded a flight to Pakistan and crossed into Afghanistan, and although he never met bin Laden, he soon pledged his allegiance to the Al Qaeda leadership. Herrington later reported that the interrogators were unsure of the real names of more than half the detainees. The guards, who were officially prohibited from interacting with him, began asking questions. He was forced to swallow salt water, and, every few minutes, the men packed ice cubes between his clothes and his skin. After all, only the Americans suspect me of terrorism, no other country. No prayers, no information about the direction of Mecca. The release comes 14 years after he was first brought by the United States to the prison at Guantanamo Bay. One of the hardest things to do is to tell an untruthful story and maintain it, and that is exactly where I was stuck., On September 8th, Salahi asked to speak to Zuley. Its not just, Yes, I did! No, it doesnt work that way: you have to make up a complete story that makes sense to the dumbest dummies. The interrogations always circled back to the Millennium Plot. For the rest of the interrogation session, he was forced to look at photos of corpses from the aftermath of the attacks. The journey to Nouakchott took roughly an hour, tracing the Mauritanian coastto the left the Atlantic, to the right the Sahara. Summer/Autumn 2015. For the next seventy days I wouldnt know the sweetness of sleeping. 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. 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. He had spent much of the past fifteen months in Yemen, investigating Al Qaedas bombing of the U.S.S. . On December 19th, Abu Hafs boarded a bus in Quetta, carrying a fake passport and a suitcase full of cash. 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. I asked Abu Hafs to tell me the name printed in his diplomatic passport, assuming that the identity was no longer valid. (His wife returned to Nouakchott.) In 2012, Salahis lawyers won a seven-year legal battle to declassify his diary. He spent 14 years imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay after being falsely accused of playing a role in . Meanwhile, the Bush Administrations pretext for invading Iraq was collapsing, and so was Woods trust in government. contract psychologist who devised the enhanced-interrogation program, describes this period as an element of Pavlovian conditioning, in which the detainee sees his situation improve or deteriorate in direct accordance with his level of compliance. Theyd ask me, Whos in there?, and Id say, I dont know, probably somebody famous.. custody, claimed that Salahi had recruited him into Al Qaeda. Something is going on.. Wood stayed with Salahi for four days. But the problem is that you cannot just admit to something you havent done; you need to deliver the details, which you cant when you hadnt done anything. The Corrupt World Behind the Murdaugh Murders. There are so many Ahmeds that itll be difficult for them to put him on the no-fly list, Salahi joked. He refused, saying that he didnt want to jeopardize his future travel. Wood compliedhe felt that it was the least he could do for Salahi. Although he towered over Salahi, he hesitated before taking his hand, and when he did he noted how delicate Salahi was. So, when Abu Hafs called Salahi for assistance a third time, in early 1999, Salahi refused, and hung up. 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. According to an investigation by Der Spiegel, he preached in gloomy back-yard mosques, and remained in occasional contact with jihadismen whose names and cell-phone numbers would turn up in investigations spanning Africa, Europe, North America, and the Middle East. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. He knew what he expected to hear. Salahis detainee dossier lists his reasons for transfer to Guantnamo: to provide information on the Al Qaeda training camp he had attended in 1992; a separate Afghan militia, which had received substantial backing from the C.I.A. He grabbed his shortwave radio. But sometimes, after coperating, hed get depressed and anxious, and say, Im a bad Muslim, Wood told me. Mohamedou Ould Salahi was born in late December, 1970, the ninth child of a Mauritanian camel herder and his wife. 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. 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. 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