(ge) A man who is widely regarded as the most tortured prisoner in the history . As Michael Lehnert, a Marine Corps major general who briefly served as the detention camps first commander, later testified to Congress, What better way to enrich yourself, while resolving old grudges, than to finger a neighbor who was your enemy, regardless of his support for either Al Qaeda or the Taliban?. Salahi figured that this was how bin al-Shibh had ended up naming him as a high-level Al Qaeda recruiter. The Corrupt World Behind the Murdaugh Murders. As at Guantnamo, he often worked at night. By Marisa Egerstrom. In time, he was given back his pain medication. At the time, Slahi had been in captivity for two years, accused of acts of terrorism. There, Abu Hafs spent two months in custody, as a formality. Salahi was terrified. In Kandahar, Abu Hafs felt the Americans closing in. He was belted so tightly that he struggled to breathe, but he didnt have the English vocabulary to tell the guards. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 50, has never been convicted of any crime or even charged with any offence. But his guard suspected otherwise. The journey to Nouakchott took almost three days, with long layovers in New York and Casablanca. After work, Salahi went to his mothers house. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Salahi noted that Steve snores likehow do you call it?a steam train.. Did you see what Steve brought me? Salahi said, pointing to some baby clothes. 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. He stayed that way for hours. He would be held there for 14 years without charge. That dictatorship was built in Guantnamo Bay.. After the prayer session, Abu Hafs led me into his living room, and for four hours he detailed his falling-out with bin Laden, his whereabouts and activities in the aftermath of 9/11, and his relationship with Mauritanias President. Just remember Allah always has a plan. Where is Abu Hafs? one of them asked. 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.. I went back to my tent and laid down to go to sleep. 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. The journey to Nouakchott took roughly an hour, tracing the Mauritanian coastto the left the Atlantic, to the right the Sahara. One of Salahis friends, who was now living in Canada, suggested that he move to Montreal. He told me he hated Jews also. As he read about Islamic history, he began to seek clarity in the Quran itself. They drove to the airport in silence, in Abdellahis black Mercedes. Salahi landed in Montreal on November 26, 1999. 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. Twelve days later, a group of men charged into Salahis cell with a snarling German shepherd. Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Couch truly believed Mohamedou Ould Slahi was guilty. He slept in remote villages, and entrusted his life to Afghan sheepherders who were presumably unaware of the twenty-five-million-dollar bounty on his head. team left Guantnamo, and the torture began. 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. 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. 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. During interrogations, an intelligence officer, known among the detainees as William the Torturer, forced Salahi into stress positions that exacerbated his sciatic-nerve issues. So empty., In recent months, the push for Salahis passport has taken on new urgency. On December 19th, Abu Hafs boarded a bus in Quetta, carrying a fake passport and a suitcase full of cash. In 2005, Mauritania had a military coupthe typical way in which power has changed hands since independence. 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. Bet youll think twice next time about saying you know me, he said, laughing. We got to the site at sunrise; the sky was a hazy, muted orange, from wildfires burning to the south. Les carnets de Guantanamo, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Eric Betsch, Michel Lafon. Published now for the first time, Guantanamo . came to much the same conclusion.) Once every fifteen minutes, a prisoner tried to hang himself by tying his sheet around his neck and fastening it through the mesh of the cage wall, James Yee, an Army captain who served as the Muslim chaplain in Guantnamo, recalled in his memoir, For God and Country, from 2005. The anteroom was filled with Mauritanian dignitaries and lites, all men, sitting on couches that lined the perimeter. Out here, Im probably only drinking seven or eight coffees per day, he told me. Among such methods as forced nakedness, dietary manipulation, daily twenty-hour interrogations, waterboarding, exposure to freezing temperatures, and the withholding of medical care, Beaver endorsed the use of scenarios designed to convince the detainee that death was imminent. (She later expressed surprise that her legal opinion had become the final word on interrogation policies and practices within the Department of Defense.) An accompanying memo, drafted by a military psychologist and a psychiatrist, explained that all aspects of the environment should enhance capture shock, dislocate expectations, foster dependence, and support exploitation to the fullest extent possible., In November, 2002, the set of proposed techniques landed on Donald Rumsfelds desk. Only one of the twenty-six interrogators was capable of working without an interpreter. Salahi was asked about innocuous exchanges from intercepted e-mails and phone calls, as if they had been conducted in code. . The interrogations always circled back to the Millennium Plot. 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. Two intelligence officers, including Yacoub, arrived and said that Abdellahi needed to see him again. It was the pretty blond interrogator bringing in these disks with footage from Al Qaeda and Taliban training camps in Afghanistan, Wood recalled. En 2005, trois ans aprs son arrestation, Mohamedou a commenc rdiger un journal. One day, German officers questioned one of Salahis friends. He couldnt stop talking because he didnt know where he was, nor why, Salahi wrote. Abu Hafs, however, regarded the Pakistanis as duplicitous. Then one of them shouted, Pillow, you can come out now! A short man in his mid-thirties stepped into the guards area, unshackled. But Wood spent his days in the base library, researching topics that Salahi had brought up in the cell. We met like any decent person these dayson social media, Salahi said. 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. No one will know what happened to him, and eventually, no one will care.. Thirty-five years later, the United States government drew inspiration from this experiment in its approach to interrogating terror suspects. 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. Steve Wood was elated when he heard the news. I took the pillow as a sign of the end of the physical torture.. Allah! Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi discusses his story being adapted as "The Mauritanian", alongside fmr. 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. On paper, Salahi is not listed as the father. Slahi says his interrogator could not sell his false confessions up the chain of command. 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. The Americans, with their policies, bore the fruit of the events of September 11th, Abu Hafs said on camera. Salahi underwent daily interrogations. He wrote a letter to his wife and children, but there was no way to send it, and so he kept it in a pocket in his robes. Military-police officers so frequently abused the Quran during cell searches that detainees demanded that the books be kept in the library, where they would be safe. 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. After a few months, he signed up for the Oregon National Guard, on the military-police track. Each government claims that it has come to the rescue of the population, which had been neglected and abused by the previous government, Badre Eddine told me. A lot of wise people tell me, Mohamedou, shut the fuck up, dont ask for papers, dont ask. He was accused of being a part of the Al-Qaeda by the American government. There are so many Ahmeds that itll be difficult for them to put him on the no-fly list, Salahi joked. (His wife returned to Nouakchott.) It is basically subject to perception. By the spring of 2003, Salahi had been visited in Guantnamo by investigators from Canada and Germany, and questioned by various U.S. government agencies. Then the men were loaded onto an airplane. They asked me do I know Ahmed Ressam. . The lead officer couldnt speak Mauritanias Hassaniya Arabic, and Abdellahi hardly understood the Jordanian dialect, so Salahi translated for them. This is my daughter. Another two years passed before Salahis name caught the attention of Deddahi Ould Abdellahi, the head of Mauritanias security-intelligence apparatus. His very existence will become erased. Twenty-hour interrogations. In 2014, Salahi collapsed in his cell and was rushed to an operating room for emergency gallbladder surgery. James Mitchell, the C.I.A. 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. 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. In 2005, during the military hearing, Salahi had urged the presiding officer not to send him back to Mauritania. 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. My cell expanded, the lights became brighter, colors more colorful, the sun shone warmer and gentler, and everyone around me looked friendlier, he wrote. I wish you good luck, the agent said. Mohamedou Ould Slahi: Yes, I read the same story, and I was sort of excited. Mohamedou Ould Slahi spent 14 years in Guantanamo Bay prison. Neely later found out that the elderly detainee had jerked because, when he was forced to his knees, he thought he was about to be shot in the back of the head. An officer shouted Code Red! into a radio, and the Internal Reaction Force team raced to the scene and hog-tied him. . When Wood agreed to talk about Salahi for a TV documentary, Wendys parents staged an intervention. At an event, I exchanged phone numbers with an extremely submissive server who was dressed in ragged clothes and had a cloudy, damaged eye. He sought structure and disciplinea life of pride, purpose, and clarity of mission. The governments case, essentially, is that Salahi was so connected to al-Qaida for a decade beginning in 1990 that he must have been part of al-Qaida at the time of his capture, Robertson wrote. Salahi was on a diet of Ensure nutrition shakes and antidepressants. But the Germans saw no reason to detain or question him. You can receive millions of dollars, one of the flyers said. Guantanamo Diary Revisited recounts the experience of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a citizen of Mauritania, who was imprisoned at the Guantnamo Bay facility from 2002 to 2016, accused by American. After she converted to Islam, they married in a religious ceremony. 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. Some of Mohsens bad friends, as Salahi described them, visited Mohsens apartment while he was hosting Salahi. 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 and Steve Wood met in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2004. 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. 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. Neither of them knew that the United States had asked Mauritanias President to hand over Salahi to a rendition team. One day they would deprive him of food, and the next theyd force him to drink water until he vomited. Soon afterward, in Guantnamo Bay, Salahi saw his own face on a TV screen. When I visited Wood, last August, he and his team were layering the surface of a bridge near Dayton, Oregon, with epoxy, rocks, and primer. Several young men mentioned Salahi as a contact in Germany. In deliberations with Al Qaeda leaders, he decided that the safest place was Iran. Salahi and Wood sat in front of a laptop, with the Webcam on, and Skyped into a room in Washington. Mohamed Elmoustapha Ould Badre Eddine, a left-wing member of the Mauritanian Parliament, conducted inquiries of his own, but made no progress. Look up the prison on Robben Island. For the next seventy days I wouldnt know the sweetness of sleeping. (Forty people remain in the camp, at an annual cost of some ten million dollars a detainee.) 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. Each time, the minister liedeven after the Red Cross had started delivering Salahis letters from Guantnamo to his family. LadenGerman for computer shopand he figured that, to the Americans, Laden would be a red flag. 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. In mid-November, Salahi voluntarily sat for a polygraph test. 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. Salahi and Wood went around the room shaking hands with bankers, merchants, prefects, doctors. 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. One night in October, 2016, Woods phone rang while he was in a Safeway in Portland. Salahis freedom became a strain on Woods marriage. Mohamedou Ould Salahi, from Mauritania, was born in 1970. . Its their citizen, and its their country.. 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. They were afraid that I would kill some people.. In the military hearing, Salahi described the torture program in vivid detail. Mauritanian hospitals dont have the capacitythey typically send such patients to Francebut what Salahi didnt know was that his repatriation would not amount to the restitution of his rights. 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. Then a sergeant major pulled him aside for a brief interview, and assigned him to work the night shift in Echo Special, a secret, single-occupancy unit that had been built to house the United States militarys highest-value detainee. During the next few months, Wood showed up between prayer times, to avoid any pressure to participate. But his guard suspected otherwise. Look him up, dude. (They were no longer brothers-in-law, as Salahi and his wife had divorced.) He knew what he expected to hear. In the third country, the Mauritanian foreign minister greeted Abu Hafs, and accompanied him on the flight to Nouakchott. But Salahi was shackled to the floor, so he could do so only hunched over. Pendant des mois, il a crit ses mmoires . When they removed his shackles, the man, who was shaking with fear, suddenly jerked to the left. Steve Wood with Salahi, his former prisoner, in Mauritania, in January. Bad people always want to blend into a crowd, Salahi explained at the military hearing. 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. 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. and the G.I.D., but received none. Mohamedou Ould Slahi fights for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for . He and Abdellahi knelt on the runway, and prayed together. 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 . 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. This is the exact opposite of whats supposed to happen. But the call to jihad interrupted his studies. 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.). Salahi told him that he was now home. with you, and that is to tell me five things that you are grateful for today, he told one of them. 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. When Abu Hafs reached Quetta, in Pakistan, he found the citys private hospital filled with injured Al Qaeda members. Salahi denied knowing Ahmed Ressam, and added that he thought the entire narrative around the attack had been concocted to unlock the terrorism budget and hurt the Muslims. At the time, he later wrote, I believed excessively in Conspiracy Theoriesthough maybe not as much as the U.S. government does.. The point is to pave, seal, and waterproof it, to preserve its lifespan, he said. Not long afterward, in mid-November, Salahis boss sent him to Mauritanias Presidential palace, to install Internet routers and update the phones. A fourth was Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the attack cordinator; while in C.I.A. But he subsequently forgot the log-in information, and so he never saw a reply. The whole time I was thinking, you know, What does he really think of us? he recalled. The doors of my house are open.. So that scared me away, he said. Through the window I started to see the sand-covered small villages around Nouakchott, as bleak as their prospects, he wrote. The release comes 14 years after he was first brought by the United States to the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Ad Choices. A private hospital in Germany has offered to cover the costs of Salahis gallbladder surgery, plus a year of physical and psychological rehabilitation, but without a passport he cannot travel to Europe. But he did not consider himself a member of Al Qaeda, or a facilitator of its operations. Her wife was on hand to support her last month, as she scooped the coveted Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe for her efforts in The Mauritanian. Every other week, when Red Cross representatives visited the prison, Salahi and a handful of other C.I.A. In the two and a half years since his return, he has received several professional visitorsSiems, his lawyers, and the filmmaker Michael Bronner, who is adapting Salahis diaryand also personal visits from a lawyer, whom Ill call Amanda. . 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. 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. 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. 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.. 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. 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. Mohamedou Ould Sah es uno de tantos casos que estn sufriendo en una prisin, acusados de delitos que no cometieron. Salahi, who hadnt been home since 1993, was filled with nostalgia and dread. 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. Abu Hafs, Salahis cousin and a senior Al Qaeda official, evaded capture. NOUAKCHOTT - Mohamedou Salahi is beaming.His welcoming smile is a sign that our conversation, delving into his recent past, may not be so excruciating after all. The night terrors kept coming. Walid, who was thirteen, started reading bin Ladens pamphlets. Force-feeding during the daylight hours of Ramadan, when Muslims are supposed to fast. 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