An officer shouted Code Red! into a radio, and the Internal Reaction Force team raced to the scene and hog-tied him. smaller?, One of the F.B.I. . 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. But by then the Soviet Union had collapsed, and, while Salahi was in training, the Afghan government lost its Russian support. A private jet landed, and out climbed a Jordanian rendition team. If the detainee dies, youre doing it wrong. (Fredman has disputed the accuracy of the meeting minutes. ), In October, 2004, Woods girlfriend gave birth to a daughter, Summer. . 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. . More detainees have died at Guantnamo than have been convicted of a crime. That was my thinkingthat he was sufficiently intelligent and well informed to help any intelligence service that might ask him for help.. English was his fourth language. In the spring of 1999, French intelligence officers asked their Canadian counterparts if they could question Ressam about jihadi activities in Europe, but the Canadians couldnt locate him, because he had entered the country on a fake passport. The videos had been pulled from jihadi Web sites, or captured by intelligence officers during raids, and Salahis role was to identify the people in them. The Mauritanian, Kevin Macdonald's movie based on the true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man . 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. One day, they had coffee at a hotel, by the pool, with the legal team of a current Guantnamo detainee. In 1988, Salahi graduated from high school and won a scholarship to study engineering in Duisburg, Germany. It sucked that I didnt have the freedom to travel, Salahi recalled in the military hearing. Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Steve Wood met in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2004. 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. Wood, then a member of the. Mohamedou Ould Salahi, from Mauritania, was born in 1970. They named him Ahmed, and Salahi asked Wood to be the godfather. 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 the time, Slahi had been in captivity for two years, accused of acts of terrorism. How can I render uninterrupted interrogation that has been lasting the last 7 years. As we walked to the house, Abu Hafs al-Mauritani came out of a nearby mosque, dressed in a white turban and long robes. 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. A few weeks later, Iranian spies told Abu Hafs to call other Al Qaeda officials and inform them that they would be welcome in Iranalthough, like him, they would live with their wives and children under a form of house arrest, sometimes in prisons, sometimes in lavish compounds and hotels, always in the company of the Revolutionary Guard. 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. Twelve days later, a group of men charged into Salahis cell with a snarling German shepherd. In 2005, during the military hearing, Salahi had urged the presiding officer not to send him back to Mauritania. ; mosques in Duisburg; and his cousin Abu Hafs al-Mauritani. Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Couch truly believed Mohamedou Ould Slahi was guilty. 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. A close friend of his had been the co-pilot of one of the planes that was flown into the World Trade Center, and Couch told the Wall Street Journal that he had renlisted because he wanted to get a crack at the guys who attacked the United States. When he saw the governments file on Salahi, he considered pursuing the death penalty. Everything that happened to meeverything I witnessed in Guantnamo Bayhappened in the name of democracy, in the name of security, in the name of the American people, Salahi told the audience at the Amnesty event. The men slept on his floor and left for Afghanistan at dawn. The latter, the actor last seen on our screens playing a serial killer in . 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. came to much the same conclusion.) When Wood tried to search for 760 in Guantnamos detainee database, he found nothing. There were no weapons of mass destruction. [4] Slahi traveled from his home in Germany to Afghanistan in December 1990 "to support the mujahideen." 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. The leadership at Guantnamo was more interested in intelligence collection than in prosecuting detainees for terrorism crimes. In late 2003a period that Salahi described in a letter as where my brake broke looseCouch struggled to keep up with the constant stream of information. On paper, Salahi is not listed as the father. The abuse wound down slowlyno more hitting, but no comfort items, either, and no uninterrupted periods of rest. It is basically subject to perception. Steve Wood with Salahi, his former prisoner, in Mauritania, in January. Not yet released in France, this film, which tells the story of this man's . They were afraid that I would kill some people.. He began to notice surveillance everywhere. After work, Salahi went to his mothers house. I took the pillow as a sign of the end of the physical torture.. But the call to jihad interrupted his studies. No one will know what happened to him, and eventually, no one will care.. Salahi was no dirt farmer. Salahi was horrified. Though Salahi was a skilled electrician, he hired Yacoub to fix his TV. 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. Wood left for the airport at 4 A.M. Salahi spent much of the day watching YouTube compilations of the worst American Idol auditions. Abu Hafs, however, regarded the Pakistanis as duplicitous. When Wood agreed to talk about Salahi for a TV documentary, Wendys parents staged an intervention. The 58-year-old actress, who won the Best Supporting Actress prize for her role in The Mauritanian, appeared on screen for the virtual ceremony with her wife Alexandra Hedison and their dog,. In his fourth year of U.S. detention, Mohamedou Ould Slahi bonded with one particular Guantnamo guard over prison meals, American TV and the quirky movie, "The Big Lebowski." So that scared me away, he said. Salahis brother, who is a German citizen, had read in Der Spiegel that he was in Guantnamo, but Abdellahi insisted that it wasnt truethat he was looking after Salahi in a Mauritanian prison. As they left baggage claim, Salahi later wrote in his diary, my hands were shackled behind my back and I was encircled by a bunch of ghosts who cut me off from the rest of my company. 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. A Guantanamo bay convict claims he was forced to have sex with female interrogators in his recently published memoir. There is no Allah. (Forty people remain in the camp, at an annual cost of some ten million dollars a detainee.) Through the window I started to see the sand-covered small villages around Nouakchott, as bleak as their prospects, he wrote. 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. 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. For the next two months, Abu Hafs taught jihadi recruits at a madrassa. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantnamo Diary (New York: Little, Brown, 2015). Amna Nawaz: He was tortured by his American interrogators, subjected to solitary confinement,. The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga - Mohamedou Ould Slahi 2021-02-23 An epic story of a Bedouin family's survival and legacy amid their changing world in the unforgiving Sahara Desert. Mohamedou Ould Slahi (em rabe: ) (nascido em 21 de dezembro de 1970) um mauritano que foi detido no campo de deteno de Guantnamo Bay sem acusao de 2002 at sua libertao em 17 de outubro de 2016. Outside of the political discussions, he and Salahi passed the hours playing rummy, Risk, and chess. For two weeks, he worked as a guard in the cellblocks, monitoring men who had been captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan. Military police officers put blackout goggles over their eyes and mittens on their hands, then hooded them, lined them up, and tied each detainee to the one in front of him and the one behind him. At first I thought it was an armed robbery, but, when the airport police approached, the guy behind me flashed a magic badge, which immediately made the policemen retreat. Salahi and his brothers were thrown into the back of a van and driven to a detention site. 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. I executed orders. In the military hearing, Salahi described the torture program in vivid detail. During the next several days, Abu Hafs travelled toward the Pakistani province of Balochistan. You will have a job at the snap of a finger, his friend told him. by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Larry Siems ( 32 ) $17.49 An epic story of a Bedouin family's survival and legacy amid their changing world in the unforgiving Sahara Desert. Eventually, one of the interrogators told Salahi that he was going to be sent to Mauritania for more questioning. While he was held at Gitmo, Slahi was repeatedly tortured in an . So, completely different goals in life., Sometimes Wood opened Salahis Quran to a random page and told him the verse number, and Salahi would recite it aloud from memory, first in Arabic, then in English. 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. It was Ramadan again. Abu Hafs was back in Afghanistan, living with his family in Kandahar. His heavily redacted book about his time in the U.S. facility was published in January 2015. Wahrheit macht frei, the officer saidthe truth sets you free. He is seen as one of the most successful Writer of all times. They were everywhere in the mosque, in the police car, twenty-four hours. Among the targets of the investigation was Mohsen, Salahis friend and host. 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. No, its not looking good at all, Salahi said. Most of his incarceration was spent in a cell at a detention camp at. The Americans, with their policies, bore the fruit of the events of September 11th, Abu Hafs said on camera. In deliberations with Al Qaeda leaders, he decided that the safest place was Iran. Man, youve had a really tough time of it, he said. His mother was dead, and so was one of his brothers, but there were teen-age nieces and nephews whom he was meeting for the first time. A week after Salahi began leading prayers at the Al Sunnah mosque, Ressam drove a rental car onto a U.S.-bound ferry in Victoria, British Columbia. Today Slahi, who is now 50, resides back home in Mauritania, though he is far from free. 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. Abu Hafs, Salahis cousin and a senior Al Qaeda official, evaded capture. Wood walked through the camp to Echo Special proud to be part of a serious national-security operation. When my turn came, two guards grabbed me by the hands and feet and threw me toward the reception team, Salahi wrote. Another dissonance was that Salahis eloquent orations on fundamental human rights stopped short of confronting a reality that Wood noticed on the second day: as guests of Mauritanian lites, they were served lavish meals by people who appeared to be slaves. Salahi was on a publicity campaign, to draw attention to the injustice of his withheld passport, and at times it seemed to Wood as if he were a propthe former guard who recognized Salahis innocence. On December 19th, Abu Hafs boarded a bus in Quetta, carrying a fake passport and a suitcase full of cash. Before dawn, Salahi was taken to an interrogation room. 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.. Yee, who had converted to Islam in the early nineties, sent a request up the chain of command, but was rebuffed. For some thirty hours, Salahi was strapped to a board. Wood stayed with Salahi for four days. He also contacted another guard from Echo Special. For the rest of the interrogation session, he was forced to look at photos of corpses from the aftermath of the attacks. I petitioned the Defense Department to allow me to show him the edited manuscript, but they turned me down. In 2015, it was published, by Little, Brown, as Guantnamo Diary.. 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. One day, German officers questioned one of Salahis friends. After she converted to Islam, they married in a religious ceremony. With the assistance of German intelligence, Abdellahi told me, we started collecting the maximum amount of information. 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.). Mohamedou Ould Slahi: I always told myself, at the end of the day, I didn't do wrong to anyone. No. But, when the list of detainees finally arrived, he recalled, my reaction was, What the fuck? . When I heard him say that, I knew the truth wouldnt set me free, because Arbeit didnt set the Jews free, Salahi recalled. Summer/Autumn 2015. This is the exact opposite of whats supposed to happen. While in custody, Salahi had befriended Yacoub, the intelligence officer who had been one of his guards. Seems a little creepy., Sensory deprivation can cause hallucinations, usually visual rather than auditory, but you never know, Zierhoffer replied. As for his jihadi connections, Robertson continued, the governments classified filings tend to support Salahis submission that he was attempting to find the appropriate balanceavoiding close relationships with al-Qaida members, but also trying to avoid making himself an enemy of the group. A few days later, Salahi was released. 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. The next day, Abu Hafs invited me to his house, in one of Nouakchotts most expensive neighborhoods. In Iran, Abu Hafs was greeted by representatives of a secretive and lite Revolutionary Guard Corps unit that is responsible for protecting top officials. Anyway, he said, I know you are part of the Millennium Plot.. Other Guantnamo prisoners threw punches and feces and urine, but, according to the classified dossier, Salahis only disciplinary infraction was that, on May 11, 2003, he possessed an excessive amount of MRE food., Salahi often appeared sullen and withdrawn. According to Fallon, most of the interrogators were basically conscripts who would walk into a room for the first time thinking the detainee was just waiting to be cracked open and they were the next Jack Bauer, the fictional protagonist of 24, who used abusive tactics to elicit information and save his city from terrorist attacks. A fourth was Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the attack cordinator; while in C.I.A. The first rumors of a planes operation began circulating among Al Qaeda leaders in 1999. He no longer derived much solace from Islam, and rarely prayed. In time, Wood began to think of everything he had known before meeting Salahi as a narrow-minded myth of American superiority, notable for its omissions of overseas misadventures. One day, after an interrogator kicked a Quran across the floor, detainees organized a mass suicide attempt. One of Salahis friends, who was now living in Canada, suggested that he move to Montreal. But the Germans saw no reason to detain or question him. 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. ), One night, Salahi awoke to the sound of a tiny hole being drilled into his wall. Slahi's rare contacts with the cousin, and an occasion in which he allowed travelers from near his hometown to stay the night only to learn they were Al Qaeda soldiers were among the . The Senegalese did the talking, but the Americans provided the questions and reported back to D.C. Ahmed is a camel herder, as his father was before him and as his young son Abdullahi will be after him. When he refused to back out of the interview, Wendy insisted that he wear an on-camera disguise. I tried to press the topic with Salahi, but it was as if his transfer from Guantnamo had carried with it a kind of transposition of restraint, from shackles to self-policing. I am not in Afghanistan, Salahi replied. You very much become a child again.. They punched Salahi in the face and the ribs, then covered his eyes with blackout goggles, his ears with earmuffs, and his head with a bag. Id come home and iron my uniform, and my roommates didnt know a thing, he said. Salahi was on a diet of Ensure nutrition shakes and antidepressants. Moreover, he is handicapped. In response, detainees would stop coperating and start chanting or praying; in an attempt to reassert control, Fallon wrote, the interrogators would duct-tape their mouths, further guaranteeing that they wouldnt get any informationand so it would go. Nevertheless, he recalled, each failed interrogation was taken as proof that the detainees were both Al Qaeda and trained to resist these methods. In 2000, investigators in northern England had discovered a jihadi field manual that included advice on lying to captors. In time, he became suspicious that Salahis confessions had been elicited through torture, and were therefore tainted evidence. Then he was prescribed antidepressants. Walid, who was sixteen, stayed behind. team and their Afghan counterparts travelled through much of northern Afghanistan, laying the groundwork for the U.S. military invasion. But the problem is that you cannot just admit to something you havent done; you need to deliver the details, which you cant when you hadnt done anything. His proximity to so many events and high-level jihadi figures could not be explained by coincidence, they thought, and only a logistical mastermind could have left so faint a trail. Discover Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. The Ambassador called Nouakchott, and the foreign minister ordered the Embassy to fabricate a passport, using a fake name. 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. Torture has been prohibited by international law, but the language of the statutes is written vaguely, Jonathan Fredman, a senior C.I.A. How does he behave? 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. The detainees protested, and so it was decided that every detainee who refused the Quran would be IRFed. While the detainees were receiving medical treatment for their post-IRF injuries, the Qurans were placed back in their cells. In Robertsons assessment, the governments evidence about Salahi was so attenuated, or so tainted by coercion and mistreatment, or so classified, that it cannot support a successful criminal prosecution. He concluded, Salahi must be released from custody.. Seven months later, his deployment ended. 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. 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 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. Wood told Salahi that he was working for his brothers construction company, repairing bridges. In June, 2004, the Supreme Court ruled that Guantnamo detainees could challenge the grounds for their detention. I Tweeted it. It takes a lot of prep to start the job, but, when youve done your bit, youre leaving things better than when you arrived, he said. 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! His diary is not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious. Before his deployment, he had aspired to become a police officer. In return, they passed along messages from Salahi, which they had invented, and assured the family that Salahi was well. Alicia Florrick has been a good wife to her husband, a former state's attorney . But, when he wanted to engage, he spoke with a worldly, provocative humor that Wood found appealing. I came to Canada with a plan to blow up the CN Tower in Toronto, Salahi wrote, in one of his many confessions. Mohamedou Ould Salahi has a net worth of $5.00 million (Estimated) which he earned from his occupation as Writer. The days of 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. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. 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. But Salahi wanted to live free of surveillance, and he decided to leave the country. 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. Instead, the men stripped him naked, strapped a diaper on him, and swapped out his shackles for a heavier set. Around that time, Abu Hafs explained, it became clear to him that the Mauritanian President would be open to his return from Iran. 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. As they walked to the car, Salahi dug into Woods personal life. Detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi joined the terrorist organisation Al-. Then Abu Hafs greeted Wood, who, appearing paralyzed by confusion, coldly took his hand. In the eighties, he and a younger cousin, a slender poet named Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, spent their evenings at a local caf, where the owner showed videos of the Palestinian struggle and the jihad in Afghanistan, which the Soviet Union had invaded in 1979. The local dive shop offered gear and certifications for sailing, water-skiing, snorkelling, scuba diving, and more: No experience, no problem. (His wife returned to Nouakchott.) It was not every day, the tortureI would say maybe twice a week. While other detainees were mercilessly beaten, strung up by their limbs, and sexually assaulted, he added, all they did was strike me at different times in the face, and hit me against the concrete wall.. When Salahis female interrogators came in for a game of Monopoly, Salahi always threw the match. The Americans supplied the questions, and the Jordanians extracted the responses, often through coercive means. Helicopters dropped flyers in remote Afghan villages, offering wealth and power beyond your dreams to anyone who turned in a member of Al Qaeda or the Taliban. So look at me, Salahi said. His order for release in 2010 was appealed by the Obama administration, and resulted in another six years in the camp. 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