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. The fragmented image of Mohamedou Salahi that United States military, law-enforcement, and intelligence agencies assembled in a classified dossier was that of a highly intelligent Mauritanian electrical engineer, who, as a key al-Qaida member, had played a role in several mass-casualty plots. Last May, one of Salahis cousins posted a note on Facebook that referred to Woods conversion. in the United States on February 12. One day, German officers questioned one of Salahis friends. Mohamed Elmoustapha Ould Badre Eddine, a left-wing member of the Mauritanian Parliament, conducted inquiries of his own, but made no progress. 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. English was his fourth language. But, when the new commander asked Stuart Herrington, a retired colonel and Army intelligence officer, to assess operations at the facility, Herrington found that most interrogators lacked the training and the experience required to be effective. Near the airport parking lot, Salahi stood in a light-blue boubou, the traditional Mauritanian robe, with a turban to obscure his identity. Anyway, he said, I know you are part of the Millennium Plot.. 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. And Jodie Foster, 58, was spotted enjoying some. 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. Allah! But the government had abandoned the theory that Salahi knew about 9/11 before it happened. He identified himself as Captain Collins, a Navy officer who had been sent to Guantnamo by the White House. Then he was prescribed antidepressants. 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. By Marisa Egerstrom. When he refused to back out of the interview, Wendy insisted that he wear an on-camera disguise. It was a grand compound, white stone decorated with lavish carpets and chandeliers. In 2012, Salahis lawyers won a seven-year legal battle to declassify his diary. Taliban fighters walked the streets, confident in the support they received from Pakistans intelligence service. 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. Des milliers de livres avec la livraison chez vous en 1 jour ou en magasin avec -5% de rduction ou tlchargez la version eBook. Have you heard of Nelson Mandela? Wood recalled Salahi saying. Although many of the detainees arrived malnourished, with their bodies marked by bullet wounds and broken bones, some IRF teams punched them and slammed their heads into the ground until they were bloody and unconscious. In a newly published journal he reveals allegations of torture and sexual abuse. 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. Every time there was a hurricane warning in Guantnamo Bay, Salahi dreamed that the storm had wiped away the prison camp, and everyone, detainees and captors alike, was fighting side by side to survive, he wrote. agents walked into the cell. 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.. Mohamedou Ould Slahi. 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. 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. Salahi noted that Steve snores likehow do you call it?a steam train.. 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.). On paper, Salahi is not listed as the father. 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. Shortly before the first detainees arrived, Robert McFadden, an N.C.I.S. There was a famous Mauritanian poet named Taki, the former minister of communications, the current Mauritanian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Id read about Muslim heroes who faced the death penalty, head up, he wrote. (He escaped through a kitchen door.) Look him up, dude. I executed orders. 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. Ahmed is a camel herder, as his father was before him and as his young son Abdullahi will be after him. Bad people always want to blend into a crowd, Salahi explained at the military hearing. Larry Siems visited Salahi in Mauritania, and they set about filling in the redactions in the book. 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. He couldnt stop talking because he didnt know where he was, nor why, Salahi wrote. But a friend helped him find work installing Internet routers for a telecommunications company. In June, 2004, the Supreme Court ruled that Guantnamo detainees could challenge the grounds for their detention. Everyone wants to close Guantnamo, but what will happen to the detainees? 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! Seven or eight of his ribs were broken. Although slavery was criminalized in 2007, Mauritanian human-rights advocates told me that the law was drafted to appease international organizationsthat virtually nothing has changed. Mohamedou Ould Salahi was born in Rosso, Mauritania, the ninth of twelve children of a camel herder. Salahi was led to a small private aircraft. Bin Laden, wary of Al Qaedas fragility, urged him not to speak publicly of his departure. They didnt tell me, because they were scared, Salahi recalled. In 1998, he had travelled to Afghanistan, and spent a year in Al Qaeda training camps, where he learned to handle weapons and explosives. Moreover, he is handicapped. 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. 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. Case of Mohamedou Ould Slahi. 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. At an event, I exchanged phone numbers with an extremely submissive server who was dressed in ragged clothes and had a cloudy, damaged eye. Twenty-hour interrogations. But, when he wanted to engage, he spoke with a worldly, provocative humor that Wood found appealing. This friendship is real., Salahi saw no path out of Guantnamo. How did they do it?. 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. Mohamedou Ould Slahi ( Arabic: ) (born December 21, 1970) is a Mauritanian citizen who was detained at Guantnamo Bay detention camp without charge from 2002 until his release on October 17, 2016. Mohamedou Ould Slahi fights for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for . Youve still got, like, a solid eight inches.. After she converted to Islam, they married in a religious ceremony. He's a believer. Abu Hafs ascended to Al Qaedas Shura Council, where he served as bin Ladens personal adviser on Sharia law. It was the first time Wood had encountered the Quran. The first rumors of a planes operation began circulating among Al Qaeda leaders in 1999. A similar phone call, followed by a second transaction, took place in December, 1998. Salahi agreed, and Abu Hafs wired around four thousand dollars to his German account. He let you down! An interrogation memo listed plans to shave Salahis head and beard, dress him in a burqa, and make him bark and perform dog tricks, to reduce the detainees ego and establish control.. I'm a really big believer in Joe Biden. . There, Abu Hafs spent two months in custody, as a formality. 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. Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. While in custody, Salahi had befriended Yacoub, the intelligence officer who had been one of his guards. 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. Its hard to sit there and laugh and chat with the guy, if hes actually that bad, Wood told me. Wood was the second of three boys. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge. After three months, he left Afghanistan and returned to Duisburg, where he worked in a computer-repair shop while he finished his degree. No chairs, no lying down, no more access to his prescription pain medication. Detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi joined the terrorist organisation Al-. 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. During interrogations, detainees were forced to perform mock satanic rituals, or were draped in the Israeli flag. 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. 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. He spent 14 years imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay after being falsely accused of playing a role in . 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. All I can tell you is to tell the truth. They hugged. He remains locked inside the notorious naval base. Where is Osama bin Laden? They shouted and threw objects against the wall. Cole, and hoped that some of the men who were being shipped to Guantnamo would have information about the case. 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. So much had changed since he had been taken into custody, more than fifty-four hundred days earlier. This episode was recorded on June 7th 2021.Dr Jordan Peterson's guest Mohamedou Ould Slahi shares his experience with more than a decade of torture, interrog. In 1967, Martin Seligman, a twenty-four-year-old Ph.D. student in psychology, conducted an experiment that involved delivering electric shocks to dogs in various states of restraint. No showers for weeks. He did not respond to requests for comment.) When they removed his shackles, the man, who was shaking with fear, suddenly jerked to the left. How does he react to world events? It was unclear to Abdellahi whether Salahi was still active within Al Qaeda, but he seemed to be someone whom all the Mauritanian Islamists knew. Salahi became Slahi. So began a life in which governments treated Salahi in accordance with their own mistakes. Each time, the minister liedeven after the Red Cross had started delivering Salahis letters from Guantnamo to his family. The Mauritanian tells the true story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi - played by Tahar Rahim in a Bafta-nominated turn - a man from the northwestern African state of the title, whose tenuous. It was such a good feeling.. The mission had not been accomplished. When Wood watched the evening news, he saw photographs of American M.P.s torturing and sexually humiliating Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib. One of the men momentarily removed Salahis blindfold, and shined a flashlight into his eyes. 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. Salahi told him that he was now home. . According to interrogation memos, they decorated the walls with photos of genitalia, and set up a baby crib, because he was sensitive about the fact that he had no children. and the G.I.D., but received none. custody, bin al-Shibh named Salahi as the man who had arranged his travel to Afghanistan and his introduction to bin Laden. In 2005, during the military hearing, Salahi had urged the presiding officer not to send him back to Mauritania. They prayed together, ate together, and enjoyed a picnic of bread and tea in the dunes of the Sahara. As at Guantnamo, he often worked at night. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantnamo Diary (New York: Little, Brown, 2015). In Islam, the Quran is considered the transcribed word of God; some Muslims keep the book wrapped in cloth, never letting it touch unclean surfaces. When Salahis female interrogators came in for a game of Monopoly, Salahi always threw the match. (Until 2007, a terrorist sanctions list included Salahis name as an alias for Abu Hafs.). 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. 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 New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. You must forget your fear to achieve anything., Last summer, Salahi completed an online course to become a certified life coach. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, now 50, was arrested in Mauritania three months after the 9/11 attacks, and detained in Jordan and Afghanistan before being transferred to Guantnamo in August 2002, where his long incarceration included 70 days of intensive torture and three years of 18-hours-a-day interrogations. 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. 2023 Cond Nast. had been torturing detainees at black sites for several months; now the Guantnamo leadership wanted to understand the legal gymnastics that would be required to implement a program of their own. -From Guantnamo Diary, by Mohamedou Ould Slahi It was a simple prayer. But he subsequently forgot the log-in information, and so he never saw a reply. 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. Salahi saw a mentally ill old man subjected to this method. 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. 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. 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. In some versions I saved many lives, in others I was saved, but somehow we all managed to escape, unharmed and free., Wood reconnected with Salahis lawyers, this time using his real name. No prayers, no information about the direction of Mecca. Until recently, the former spy chief Deddahi Ould Abdellahi lived directly across the street. Wood left for the airport at 4 A.M. Salahi spent much of the day watching YouTube compilations of the worst American Idol auditions. 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. If the detainee dies, youre doing it wrong. (Fredman has disputed the accuracy of the meeting minutes. He liked to rile his guards into debating equality, race, and religion, and he wielded a sophisticated understanding of history and geopolitics to chip away at their beliefs. After the failed attack, Canada began to aggressively investigate the Montreal cell. He signed it. A fourth was Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the attack cordinator; while in C.I.A. I really think that he's a good man. Yee, who had converted to Islam in the early nineties, sent a request up the chain of command, but was rebuffed. His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022 . 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. Everyone, including myself, was very nervous, he said. I just kind of shrugged it off, like, What does it matter? They decided to get a divorce. Never turn your back, the sergeant major warned him. The men were dragged out of their cells. His was the first guard force that didnt wear masks, that allowed Salahi to pray. His order for release in 2010 was appealed by the Obama administration, and resulted in another six years in the camp. (They were no longer brothers-in-law, as Salahi and his wife had divorced.) When my turn came, two guards grabbed me by the hands and feet and threw me toward the reception team, Salahi wrote. In 2006, Wood removed his shoes at the entrance to the Masjid As-Saber, Portlands largest mosque. The Ambassador drove him to Tehrans international airport in a diplomatic vehicle, and accompanied him through the diplomatic channel, through airport security and immigration, right up until the moment he got on the plane. The man confined there was referred to by his detainee number, 760. As soon as the prisoner was taken to the hospital, another detainee would be foundhis sheet wound around his neck and tied to his cage wall. The plane landed at sunset. . When I shared Abu Hafss account of his return with the senior U.S. diplomat, she replied, Its the first Im hearing any of it. The Mauritanians didnt inform the United States of his return until probably weeks later, she said. Through the window I started to see the sand-covered small villages around Nouakchott, as bleak as their prospects, he wrote. He was held in Guantanamo Bay from. (All charges were later dropped, and Yee was honorably discharged. Like most countries in West Africa, Mauritania had gained independence from France a decade earlier. At sunrise, the plane landed at Bagram Airfield, the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan. Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that the men in Guantnamo were among the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth. But after Brandon Neelys first shift, on the day the detention camp opened, no one really spoke much, he recalled. Mauritania is an Islamic republic, with rich traditions in poetry and recitation that belie its dismal rates of literacy and economic growth. Discover Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. 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 the spring of 1992, Salahi returned to Afghanistan. Soon afterward, Wood learned that the imam, a Somali immigrant who practiced a conservative strain of Islam known as Salafism, had been the subject of F.B.I. Look up the prison on Robben Island. Wood is six feet three, with a shaved head, a shy, stoic manner, and the musculature of an lite bodybuilder. Then Abu Hafs greeted Wood, who, appearing paralyzed by confusion, coldly took his hand. (The phrase Work sets you free appeared on the gates of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. 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. 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. No adult in Woods life had ever looked so frightened and so vulnerable. 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. Thirty or forty of Abu Hafss followers filled a small wooden shack next to his home, spilling into the street, while he led prayers through a microphone. After a near-fatal stabbingand decades of threatsthe novelist speaks about writing as a death-defying act. Several more days of interrogation followed. Every day, Mariem Mint Elwadia asked God for the same thing: She wanted to see her son, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, just one . Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Couch truly believed Mohamedou Ould Slahi was guilty. 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. But his guard suspected otherwise. It was my way of telling him, Man, I trust you. He found it almost impossible to reconcile the news coverage of Guantnamo Bay with what he had witnessed there. The examiner described Salahi, whose answers contradicted everything he had confessed to Zuley in the preceding weeks, as eager to prove that he is providing accurate information. The results were decisive: No deception indicated.. Medical personnel had noted that Salahi had sciatic-nerve issues; now interrogators kept him in stress positions that exacerbated them. Now, as he read, I saw how beautiful the religion was, he said. Salahi had spent the morning reviewing a speech he had prepared for events hosted by Amnesty International and Physicians for Human Rights. How does he behave? I want bin Ladins head shipped back in a box filled with dry ice. 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. . In the restored edition, Salahi added, I want to repeat and affirm this message here, and to say that now that I am home, that dream is also an invitation. M Despite the Covid pandemic, which postponed its initial release by one year, the biopic "Designated Guilty" (The Mauritanian), adaptation by director Kevin MacDonald of the memoir "Les carnets de Guantanamo" by Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, has finally been released. But, hey, I have to cope with it. Meanwhile, his subordinates continued to collect bribes from Salahis family. 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. The release comes 14 years after he was first brought by the United States to the prison at Guantanamo Bay. And Steves interest is to impress the girls. Before meeting Salahi, Wood had never heard of Mauritania; Salahi told him that, to his great embarrassment, slavery was still practiced there, even among people close to him. It was Ramadan again. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. A Guantanamo bay convict claims he was forced to have sex with female interrogators in his recently published memoir. I think he still sees any baby in my family as a future inmate. Brahim Ebety, Salahis Mauritanian lawyer, told me that he is considering a lawsuit against the Mauritanian government. I thought they were going to execute me, Salahi wrote. The document he signed listed one aim of the abuse as to replicate and exploit the Stockholm Syndrome, in which kidnapping victims come to trust and feel affection for their captors. I am denied my freedom because I was denied my freedom, Salahi said. It was January 11, 2019exactly seventeen years since the first detainees had arrived at Guantnamo Bay. The doors of my house are open.. (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. detainees were whisked to the cellar, to be hidden from view. With a movie based on his ordeal. . . Yacoub climbed into the passenger seat. The Pentagon had reported that he was dead. 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. 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