Abu Hafs, Salahis cousin and a senior Al Qaeda official, evaded capture. I was thinking, Those were the worst people the world had to offer?, Investigators had the same question. I dont like power, he said. Because he had no experience with weapons, Al Qaeda personnel sent him to the Al Farouq training camp, near Khost, where he learned how to use a Kalashnikov rifle and launch rocket-propelled grenades. 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 . had raided a hotel in Khartoum. His order for release in 2010 was appealed by the Obama administration, and resulted in another six years in the camp. At that time, Slahi was seen as one of the most important detainees at Guantanamo with allegations that he had helped organise the 9/11 attacks. This friendship is real., Salahi saw no path out of Guantnamo. Mohamedou Ould Salahi has a net worth of $5.00 million (Estimated) which he earned from his occupation as Writer. He and his comrades were told that many of the detainees were responsible for 9/11 and, given the opportunity, would strike again. A panel of U.S. national security, intelligence, and other officials cleared Slahi for release in July after determining that he poses 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. Several of his co-workers were missing fingers, and the manager took every opportunity to denigrate the staff. We met like any decent person these dayson social media, Salahi said. 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. agents visited Salahis cell. 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. The next day, Abu Hafs invited me to his house, in one of Nouakchotts most expensive neighborhoods. The protest lasted for several days as twenty-three prisoners tried to hang themselves.. It will look worse.. The men were dragged out of their cells. He signed it. 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. Mitchell argued that, by reverse-engineering this program, interrogators could overwhelm whatever resistance training a detainee might have absorbed from the Manchester manual. Were gonna feed you up your ass, an interrogator said. He gently held Salahis shoulder, and said, Everythings O.K. Salahi shook his head, and clicked his tongue in disagreement, but refused to speak. came to much the same conclusion.) A couple of weeks into his detention, two F.B.I. One day, after an interrogator kicked a Quran across the floor, detainees organized a mass suicide attempt. Walid, who was sixteen, stayed behind. Mohamedou Salahi spent more than fourteen years in detention at Guantnamo Bay, where he was repeatedly tortured. Twelve days later, a group of men charged into Salahis cell with a snarling German shepherd. He began to notice surveillance everywhere. I want bin Ladins head shipped back in a box filled with dry ice. The 2021 legal drama follows the true story of the aforementioned protagonist (played by Tahar Rahim), a man who was arrested, taken from his . For some thirty hours, Salahi was strapped to a board. Summer/Autumn 2015. 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. 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. ; mosques in Duisburg; and his cousin Abu Hafs al-Mauritani. For years, Mohamedou Salahi was imprisoned on the grounds of being a suspected collaborator in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. When Wood told the old man that he had worked at Guantnamo Bay, the man suggested that he keep it to himself. On May 22nd, Salahis lead F.B.I. The goal was to assess whether inescapable pain could condition an animal into learned helplessness, whereby it simply accepts its fate. 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. At the beginning, Mohamedou wanted to be docile and sweet, he said. Where is Osama bin Laden? They shouted and threw objects against the wall. 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. With the assistance of German intelligence, Abdellahi told me, we started collecting the maximum amount of information. After all, only the Americans suspect me of terrorism, no other country. Force-feeding during the daylight hours of Ramadan, when Muslims are supposed to fast. One day they would deprive him of food, and the next theyd force him to drink water until he vomited. and the G.I.D., but received none. Each time, the minister liedeven after the Red Cross had started delivering Salahis letters from Guantnamo to his family. Id read about Muslim heroes who faced the death penalty, head up, he wrote. On the other end of the line was a man whose voice he hadnt heard in more than eleven years. I just wanted this to be me and God.. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, author of "Guantanamo Diary," was released after a review board determined that his continued detention was not necessary to protect against a threat to U.S. security . Walid was a prodigious poetin Nouakchott, he had won several awardsand when bin Laden met him he was impressed by his eloquence and conviction. Man, youve had a really tough time of it, he said. Salahi had deleted the contents of his phone. 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.. [1] Slahi escreveu um livro de memrias em 2005 enquanto estava preso, o qual o governo dos EUA desclassificou em 2012 com inmeras . . When the boat reached Port Angeles, near Seattle, customs officers found in the car more than a hundred pounds of explosives, along with four timed detonators, each fashioned from a nine-volt battery, a circuit board, and a Casio watch. But his guard suspected otherwise. Steve Wood with Salahi, his former prisoner, in Mauritania, in January. Ad Choices. Wed try to cover it back up, real quick, but eventually we were, like, fuck it. Every day, Mariem Mint Elwadia asked God for the same thing: She wanted to see her son, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, just one . . 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. Shortly before the first detainees arrived, Robert McFadden, an N.C.I.S. (During the layover in Casablanca, he had drunk a Red Bull and twenty-two shots of espresso.) You could always tell when someone got IRFed, as the detainees throughout the camp would start chanting and screaming, Neely recalled. How does he behave? Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who underwent brutal interrogations while he was held at Guantnamo Bay, is a free man in Mauritania after nearly 15 years as a detainee. In fact, Id say, without you, September 11th would never have happened, one of Salahis interrogators told him. When Salahis female interrogators came in for a game of Monopoly, Salahi always threw the match. 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. (Back in the 80s, during the Afghanistan insurrection, he unwittingly worked with the group. Salahi had spent the morning reviewing a speech he had prepared for events hosted by Amnesty International and Physicians for Human Rights. One day, he complained to Wood that the interrogators were demanding information on events that he couldnt possibly know about, because they had taken place while he was in custody. When he refused to back out of the interview, Wendy insisted that he wear an on-camera disguise. 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. After 14 years. In Guantnamo Diary, Mohamedou Ould Slahi describes the months of brutal interrogation, sleep deprivation, beatings, starvation, and sexual assault he endured at the U.S. government's notorious detention center in Cuba. So far, so good.. 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. (He escaped through a kitchen door.) Back on land, Salahi was carried to Echo Special, the trailer, which would be his home for several years. 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. He began to worry that awareness among his co-workers of his increasingly complex feelings toward Salahi might elicit accusations that he was unpatriotic, or an insider threat. What I was told was that his information had saved thousands of American lives, Wood said, and this is what theyd given him to keep talking., Salahi was taken into custody when he was thirty years old, but he had already lived on four continents, and spoke fluent Arabic, French, and German. On September 26th, Schroen and six other officers loaded an aging Soviet helicopter with weapons, tactical gear, and three million dollars in used, nonconsecutive bills. But a friend helped him find work installing Internet routers for a telecommunications company. The cousins had married a pair of sisters, and so they were now also brothers-in-law. By now, Wood was no longer dating Summers mother. 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. Btihal Remli for The New York. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian who lived briefly in Montreal, has launched a $30-million lawsuit against the federal government. Through the window I started to see the sand-covered small villages around Nouakchott, as bleak as their prospects, he wrote. For seventy-six days, he lived in solitary confinement, in a cold cell with surveillance cameras and the lights always on. 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?. Forces recruits who speak grammatically incorrectly, he wrote on a scrap of paper inside his cell. 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. His detention at Guantnamo Bay grabbed a lot of attention worldwide. 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. 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. 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. Where is Abu Hafs? one of them asked. 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. He thought, It must be somebody really importantthe most dangerous person in the world, perhapsto have this special attention, a guard force just for him. All he saw was a rat, Salahi wrote. The local dive shop offered gear and certifications for sailing, water-skiing, snorkelling, scuba diving, and more: No experience, no problem. They really know who is who, and, as a result, they were very reluctant to torture me. He recalled his political views as being whatever Fox News told us. He didnt know the difference between a Hindu, a Sikh, and a Muslimhe had never met one. 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. But it wasnt until two years later that bin Laden shared with the Shura Council the broad outlines of the attack: four planes; two civilian targets; two government targets. In 2006, Wood removed his shoes at the entrance to the Masjid As-Saber, Portlands largest mosque. In September, 2002, Army officers started referring to Guantnamo as Americas Battle Lab., Early in the afternoon of October 2, 2002, a group of interagency lawyers and psychologists met to come up with a framework that used psychological stressors and environmental manipulation to foster dependence and compliance. The C.I.A. A similar phone call, followed by a second transaction, took place in December, 1998. Wood compliedhe felt that it was the least he could do for Salahi. In time, Yee came to believe that Islam was systematically used as a weapon against the prisoners. Guards mocked the call to prayer, and manipulated Islamic principles of modestyby having female guards watch naked detainees in the showers, for exampleto create tension as an excuse to exact violence. Thank you for a wonderful evening!, Ive done it, Igor! Military personnel took his biometric information, and logged his health problemsincluding a damaged sciatic nervethen led him to a cell. Since then, the U.S. military has exposed some lite soldiers to the techniques, to prepare them for the kinds of abuses they might encounter should they be captured by terrorist groups or governments that dont abide by the Geneva Conventions. Thats like asking Charlie Sheen how many women he dated. The important stuff was in his diary, he said, which they could read only inside a secure facility near Washington, D.C. Amanda, who lives in Europe, was pregnant, and Salahi would miss the birth of his son. Salahi and Wood went around the room shaking hands with bankers, merchants, prefects, doctors. They said I was bringing shame upon the family, and protecting a terrorist, Wood recalled. Wood stayed with Salahi for four days. It was the first time in my thirty-year CIA career that I had ever heard an order to kill someone, Schroen wrote. But instead the United States is stating to the world very clear and loud that democracy does not workthat when you need to get down and dirty, you need a dictatorship. He never told Wendy about his conversion. In June, 2004, the Supreme Court ruled that Guantnamo detainees could challenge the grounds for their detention. He was very silly. 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. He now has two American clients, whom he helps to navigate personal and professional woes through weekly Skype meetings. And Jodie Foster, 58, was spotted enjoying some. Other men carried box cutters and explosives; Salahi was a ghost on the periphery. ), One night, Salahi awoke to the sound of a tiny hole being drilled into his wall. Seems a little creepy., Sensory deprivation can cause hallucinations, usually visual rather than auditory, but you never know, Zierhoffer replied. The abuse wound down slowlyno more hitting, but no comfort items, either, and no uninterrupted periods of rest. Soon afterward, Steve and Wendy separated. Then he was prescribed antidepressants. 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. Finally, when Slahi and his wife moved to Montreal, in 1999, they attended the al Sunnah mosquethe same mosque attended by Ahmed Ressam, a member of Al Qaeda who had been arrested, shortly. 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 Arabic countries there are oodles, but in Europe and Canada one is very rare.. Though Salahi was a skilled electrician, he hired Yacoub to fix his TV. 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. In the spring of 1992, Salahi returned to Afghanistan. The doors of my house are open.. James Mitchell, the C.I.A. 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. Striking horror, panic, and fear in the hearts of the enemies of Allah is a divine commandment. He added that American citizens should blame their law-enforcement and intelligence agencieswith their satellites, ground stations, millions of spies, and huge budgetsfor the fact that the hijackers had found a security breach as big as a whole fleet of hijacked civilian aircraft, and managed to shove Americas nose into the ground.. 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. He wanted no part of a system in which he might have control over another persons liberty. Mohamedou Ould Slahi: Yes, I read the same story, and I was sort of excited. 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. In the dark you create things out of what little you have., Had I done what they accused me of, I would have relieved myself on day one, Salahi wrote in his diary. 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. He walked into the morning sunlight in a daze, unable to reconcile his impression of the man in Echo Special with the depiction of the terrorist in the dossier. One day, German officers questioned one of Salahis friends. He was a tall, regal businessman, and wore Ted Baker sunglasses and a Rolex. was funding and equipping many of the mujahideen groups. He wanted to ask Salahi more about its contents, but he suspected that there were microphones and cameras in the cell. Another two years passed before Salahis name caught the attention of Deddahi Ould Abdellahi, the head of Mauritanias security-intelligence apparatus. Two UNM School of Law graduates, Nancy Hollander ('78) and Teri Duncan ('00), represented Mohamedou between 2005 and 2016, when he was finally released. 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. He and Abdellahi knelt on the runway, and prayed together. Salahi had been living in a cell practically since the beginning of the invasion, nine months earlier. During the next several days, Abu Hafs travelled toward the Pakistani province of Balochistan. 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. She is my life. And, by the way, I pay my boy, he added, unprompted. Several Mauritanians had travelled to battlefields in Afghanistan and Bosnia, and Mahfouz Walid had become an important figure in Al Qaeda; he now went by the nom de guerre Abu Hafs al-Mauritani. Id come home and iron my uniform, and my roommates didnt know a thing, he said. 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. 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. Wood left for the airport at 4 A.M. Salahi spent much of the day watching YouTube compilations of the worst American Idol auditions. Twenty-hour interrogations. He knew what he expected to hear. In Mauritania, Abdellahis men detained Salahis wife and brothers and interrogated them about the Millennium Plot. Out here, Im probably only drinking seven or eight coffees per day, he told me. He refused, saying that he didnt want to jeopardize his future travel. At a Pakistani Army checkpoint, he slipped a wad of bills into his passport, and went through unquestioned. Popularly known as the Writer of Mauritania. 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