After the failed attack, Canada began to aggressively investigate the Montreal cell. He was held in Guantanamo Bay from. In September 2003, Couch was assigned to prepare the prosecution of Mohamedou Ould Slahi after he joined the Office of Military Commissions in August 2003. If the detainee dies, youre doing it wrong. (Fredman has disputed the accuracy of the meeting minutes. Salahi noted that Steve snores likehow do you call it?a steam train.. Youve still got, like, a solid eight inches.. Nevertheless, he spent 14 years of captivity in America's notorious Guantanamo Bay prison,. The hours were unpredictable, with long drives and arduous shifts. No adult in Woods life had ever looked so frightened and so vulnerable. Thats why we had previously let him go. But, Abdellahi continued, shrugging, to refuse a demand from an intelligence agency, in the fight against terrorismthat would have been impossible., On the evening of November 28thMauritanias Independence DaySalahi had been in custody for a week. He's a believer. The plan, conceived by James Mitchell, a psychologist working on contract for the C.I.A., was to induce learned helplessness in humans by combining an individually tailored regimen of torture techniques with environmental manipulation. 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, who underwent brutal interrogations while he was held at Guantnamo Bay, is a free man in Mauritania after nearly 15 years as a detainee. (After 9/11, the directorate acted as a proxy jailer for the C.I.A.) The Pentagon had reported that he was dead. One of Salahis friends, who was now living in Canada, suggested that he move to Montreal. In the first edition of Guantnamo Diary, Siems had included an authors note: In a recent conversation with one of his lawyers, Mohamedou said that he holds no grudge against any of the people he mentions in this book, that he appeals to them to read it and correct it if they think it contains any errors, and that he dreams to one day sit with all of them around a cup of tea, after having learned so much from one another. Steve Wood walked into Echo Special in the spring of 2004 unaware of everything that had happened before. agents threatened Salahi with torture, and tried to intimidate him. Instead, the men stripped him naked, strapped a diaper on him, and swapped out his shackles for a heavier set. 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. (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. By the time Salahi arrived at Guantnamo, on August 5, 2002, Fallons lite interagency criminal-investigation task force had been sidelined, and Lehnert had been replaced. 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. 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. 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. All rights reserved. That was my thinkingthat he was sufficiently intelligent and well informed to help any intelligence service that might ask him for help.. Although Wood had introduced himself to Salahi as Stretch, his nickname from the sawmill, Salahi had quickly learned his real name, as well as those of the other guards. Case of Mohamedou Ould Slahi. Guantnamo Diary and the American Slave Narrative. Abu Hafs, however, regarded the Pakistanis as duplicitous. It had been five years since the Taliban had taken over most of the country, and televisions were banned. Although he towered over Salahi, he hesitated before taking his hand, and when he did he noted how delicate Salahi was. At the time, Slahi had been in captivity for two years, accused of acts of terrorism. Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantnamo Diary is at least the fifth autobiography by a Guantnamo prisoner. Few people worked out at two or three in the morning, so he had plenty of time to continue his self-education on global affairs. 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. Walid, who was thirteen, started reading bin Ladens pamphlets. International . 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. Some of Mohsens bad friends, as Salahi described them, visited Mohsens apartment while he was hosting Salahi. On February 14, 2004, Salahi received a short letter from his mother in Mauritania, informing him that her health situation is OK. It had been eight hundred and fifteen days since he had seen heran ailing woman in the rearview mirror, waving from the street as he drove to Deddahi Abdellahis intelligence headquarters. My interest is not to be tortured, he said. 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. When they asked whether Salahi was involved in any terrorist activities, the friend laughed. In 2006, Wood removed his shoes at the entrance to the Masjid As-Saber, Portlands largest mosque. Echo Special was a trailer that had been divided in two. Des milliers de livres avec la livraison chez vous en 1 jour ou en magasin avec -5% de rduction ou tlchargez la version eBook. 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. He would be held there for 14 years without charge. Slahi says his interrogator could not sell his false confessions up the chain of command. 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. How does he behave? Sometimes the sessions veer into his own coping mechanismsthe routines he made up to fill his days in Guantnamo, for example, when we had nothing to look forward to except the world we created inside my cell., Earlier this month, Amanda gave birth to a son. One day, Zuley walked into Salahis cell, carrying a pillow. But with these people you cannot be likable. (For the first several weeks of the invasion, Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense, believed that everyone spoke Afghan.) In a rush to leave Kandahar, two dozen senior Al Qaeda officials boarded a bus, but Abu Hafs, fearful that a single air strike could decapitate the jihadi movement, urged them to disperse. But his guard suspected otherwise. They were very jumpy, Salahi recalled at his hearing. In that meeting, Abu Hafs challenged bin Laden on Quranic grounds, arguing that the scale of civilian casualties could not be justified in Islam. I am denied my freedom because I was denied my freedom, Salahi said. Meanwhile, the Bush Administrations pretext for invading Iraq was collapsing, and so was Woods trust in government. During interrogations, an intelligence officer, known among the detainees as William the Torturer, forced Salahi into stress positions that exacerbated his sciatic-nerve issues. I said, No. (Investigators later determined that Ressam had left Montreal for a safe house in Vancouver on November 17thnine days before Salahi arrived in Canada.) According to Fallon, The Northern Alliance would jam so many detainees into Conex shipping containers that they started to die of suffocation. 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. 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. He couldnt stop talking because he didnt know where he was, nor why, Salahi wrote. (His name was actually Richard Zuley; he was a Chicago police detective, working as a military contractor, who has an extensive record of abusing suspects until they confessed to crimes that they hadnt committed. Comments. Before his deployment, he had aspired to become a police officer. Though Salahi was a skilled electrician, he hired Yacoub to fix his TV. 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. But, after Salahi returned to Germany, they had scarcely been in touch. To dispel notions that the United States was at war with Islam, detainees were allowed to have private meetings with a Muslim military chaplain, and were given copies of the Quran. We met like any decent person these dayson social media, Salahi said. The Taliban was rapidly losing ground. Salahi saw a mentally ill old man subjected to this method. While Abu Hafs was handling Al Qaedas affairs in East Africa, his father became ill, and so, as both men remember it, Abu Hafs requested Salahis help in transferring money to care for his family in Mauritania. (The C.I.A. 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. . custody, bin al-Shibh named Salahi as the man who had arranged his travel to Afghanistan and his introduction to bin Laden. I dont remember whether I hit the floor or was caught by the other guards. 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. 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. Salahi had spent the morning reviewing a speech he had prepared for events hosted by Amnesty International and Physicians for Human Rights. During the Amnesty International live stream, someone on Twitter commented that, of the two of them, Wood looked like the detainee. Now, faced with their own incompetence, Fallon wrote, interrogators were quick to blame classic Manchester resistance tactics!. A Guantanamo bay convict claims he was forced to have sex with female interrogators in his recently published memoir. Did this license lead Alex Murdaugh to commit fraud after fraudand then kill his wife and son? 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. I wish you good luck, the agent said. Discover Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Seems a little creepy., Sensory deprivation can cause hallucinations, usually visual rather than auditory, but you never know, Zierhoffer replied. This winter, Steve Wood set off for Mauritania. Back on land, Salahi was carried to Echo Special, the trailer, which would be his home for several years. T ahar Rahim plays Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who is arrested in 2001 in his native Mauritania with the connivance of his own government, and eventually spirited to the US prison camp on the Cuban . He just said, Dude, they fucked me up.. . 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 . ), Each detainee was given a number, and, on August 4th, thirty-four of those numbers were called, including Salahis. See what it did to his family., A job posting depicts life as an intelligence officer in Guantnamo Bay as a rewarding challenge with incredible surroundingssunsets, beaches, iguanas, pristine Caribbean blue. And I knew that the request was justified, because he had connections in this milieu, these Islamo-terrorist circles, and he might be able to give his captors some ideas of how to improve security. 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. For the rest of the interrogation session, he was forced to look at photos of corpses from the aftermath of the attacks. One day they would deprive him of food, and the next theyd force him to drink water until he vomited. Throughout 2002 and 2003, whenever the foreign minister visited the parliamentary chamber, Badre Eddine demanded to know Salahis whereabouts. But by then the Soviet Union had collapsed, and, while Salahi was in training, the Afghan government lost its Russian support. When Wood agreed to talk about Salahi for a TV documentary, Wendys parents staged an intervention. No, Im an ex-prisoner of Guantnamo Bay, Salahi replied, instantly ending the conversation. Allah! Soon after 9/11 attacks, a call from Slahi's cousin Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, a friend of Osama bin Laden's son, got him arrested in his motherland Mauritania in West Africa and transported to Guantanamo. Eventually, Salahi would be allowed access to a small patch of soil outside his trailer, where he tended sunflowers, basil, sage, parsley, and cilantro. So far, so good.. TV crews were present at meals, and an interviewer showed up at Salahis apartment, recorder in hand, and asked Wood, who still hadnt told his brothers that he is a Muslim, to comment on his favorite Quranic passages, and to share his thoughts on the legacy of the Prophet Muhammad. He was forced to swallow salt water, and, every few minutes, the men packed ice cubes between his clothes and his skin. In 1994, as the director of state security, he opened an investigation into Nouakchotts jihadi scene. Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Couch truly believed Mohamedou Ould Slahi was guilty. His wife, two-year-old son and brother live here. In deliberations with Al Qaeda leaders, he decided that the safest place was Iran. Bad people always want to blend into a crowd, Salahi explained at the military hearing. By now, Salahi was under surveillance by German intelligence. See if you think his captivity was just. 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. 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. Other men carried box cutters and explosives; Salahi was a ghost on the periphery. One was a self-help book about finding happiness in a hopeless place. I just kind of shrugged it off, like, What does it matter? They decided to get a divorce. 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. 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 withdrew the cash and gave it to friends who were travelling to Nouakchott, and they delivered it to Abu Hafss family. I took the pillow as a sign of the end of the physical torture.. 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. Salahi was horrified. It was such a good feeling.. Few locals spoke French, but since the country had been arbitrarily drawn up as a vast, mostly desert territory, populated by numerous ethnic groups who spoke different languages, there was no alternative for official documentation. During the next several days, Abu Hafs travelled toward the Pakistani province of Balochistan. This is the exact opposite of whats supposed to happen. His whole reputation rested on this fiction. There, an intelligence officer named Yacoub confiscated Salahis Quran and left him in a dank cell. The point is to pave, seal, and waterproof it, to preserve its lifespan, he said. When Wendy saw the post, she was outragedbut also somewhat relieved, since it partly explained his secretive behavior. After. An M.P. In Mauritania, Abdellahis men detained Salahis wife and brothers and interrogated them about the Millennium Plot. One of the Algerian jihadis was Ahmed Ressam, a serial thief who was living in Canada under a false identity. Mohamedou Ould Slahi: Yes, I read the same story, and I was sort of excited. In 1998, shortly after Al Qaeda detonated truck bombs outside the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Salahi took a call from a phone number belonging to bin Laden. Abu Hafs, Salahis cousin and a senior Al Qaeda official, evaded capture. Wood became secretive about his calls with Salahi; Wendy began to suspect that he was having an affair. The interrogator added that, if Salahi didnt start talking, he would be buried on Christian, sovereign American soil., On August 2nd, military records show, an interrogator told Salahi that he and his colleagues are sick of hearing the same lies over and over and over and are seriously considering washing their hands of him. Salahi called the police to report that his neighbors were spying on him, but they told him that he should just cover the cameras with glue. He was never charged with a crime, although the U.S. government suspected him of involvement in the September 11th attacks. From the floor of Parliament, Badre Eddine noted that Mauritania has no extradition treaty with the United States. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was sent to his home country of Mauritania after 14 years of imprisonment. came to much the same conclusion.) In fact, Id say, without you, September 11th would never have happened, one of Salahis interrogators told him. It didnt take my interrogator a whole lot of time to understand the situation. Another American official arrived, and took Salahis photograph and fingerprints. Theyd ask me, Whos in there?, and Id say, I dont know, probably somebody famous.. Outside Echo Special, Wood started reading about Guantnamo on activist Web sites, but a colleague warned him that Internet traffic was monitored on the base. He was not happyhe didnt want to leave, Abdellahi told me. Soon afterward, in Guantnamo Bay, Salahi saw his own face on a TV screen. Soon afterward, Canadian investigators came to the apartment and questioned him about the Millennium Plot. In the U.S., it was morning. 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. Medical personnel had noted that Salahi had sciatic-nerve issues; now interrogators kept him in stress positions that exacerbated them. . Salahi figured that this was how bin al-Shibh had ended up naming him as a high-level Al Qaeda recruiter. I told him I have no problem with the Jews, either, man. He denied involvement with terrorism and was never charged with a crime. Abdellahi called Salahis boss at the telecommunications company, to assure him that Salahi should be allowed to resume work. Its not a formal positionthere is no contract, he said. Over a three-way Anglo-French-African video call, Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Tahar Rahim are exchanging hearty greetings. The detainee introduced himself as Mohamedou Salahi, then reached for a handshake, and said, Whats up, dude?. 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 wanted to ask Salahi more about its contents, but he suspected that there were microphones and cameras in the cell. 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. Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi discusses his story being adapted as "The Mauritanian", alongside fmr. 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. His friend, Hosni Mohsen, introduced him to the imam at the Al Sunnah mosque. [4] Slahi traveled from his home in Germany to Afghanistan in December 1990 "to support the mujahideen." 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. 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. But, after Abu Hafs used bin Ladens phone to call a different cousin in Nouakchott, Abdellahis subordinates took the cousin into custody, and tortured him for two months. I came to Canada with a plan to blow up the CN Tower in Toronto, Salahi wrote, in one of his many confessions. You know, when you just fall asleep and the saliva starts to come out of your mouth? Salahi said. Anyway, he said, I know you are part of the Millennium Plot.. His heavily redacted book about his time in the U.S. facility was published in January 2015. In time, he was given back his pain medication. Ressam told investigators that he had planned to detonate suitcases in a crowded terminal at Los Angeles International Airport. The guards would rush in to save him and the chaos would start again. One day, German officers questioned one of Salahis friends. Military personnel took his biometric information, and logged his health problemsincluding a damaged sciatic nervethen led him to a cell. Wood walked through the camp to Echo Special proud to be part of a serious national-security operation. But Salahi wanted to live free of surveillance, and he decided to leave the country. Then, and on at least one other occasion, a member of Al Qaedas Shura Councilits leadershipwired some four thousand dollars to Salahis bank account in Germany; Salahi withdrew the cash and handed it to men who were travelling to West Africa, to facilitate what the Americans assessed to be money-laundering and telecommunications projects for al-Qaida., In 1999, the Shura member called Salahi, but U.S. intelligence didnt know what his instructions were. I went back to my tent and laid down to go to sleep. Have you heard of Nelson Mandela? Wood recalled Salahi saying. 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. It was Ramadan again. A security guard handed him a filthy black turban, to hide his face during the drive to the secret-police headquarters. 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