Walid, who was sixteen, stayed behind. Salahi figured that this was how bin al-Shibh had ended up naming him as a high-level Al Qaeda recruiter. Having accepted his guards, Salahi wrote, the next phase of captivity was getting used to the prison, and being afraid of the outside world.. 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. 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.) . This episode was recorded on June 7th 2021.Dr Jordan Peterson's guest Mohamedou Ould Slahi shares his experience with more than a decade of torture, interrog. agents threatened Salahi with torture, and tried to intimidate him. How does he live? 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. Last May, one of Salahis cousins posted a note on Facebook that referred to Woods conversion. 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.. A couple of weeks into his detention, two F.B.I. We met like any decent person these dayson social media, Salahi said. But the government appealed, and Salahi stayed in Guantnamo. 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. The whole time I was thinking, you know, What does he really think of us? he recalled. Guantnamo Diary and the American Slave Narrative. 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. The night terrors kept coming. Canadas Security Intelligence Service began a surveillance operation focussing on Salahi and his associates, but Salahi noticed two pinhole cameras poking through his apartment walls and left the country. This was my first time hearing these words, Salahi said. An earlier version of this story misidentified Canadas Security Intelligence Service. Like, what is a motherfucker? The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. I arrived just before the sunset prayers. They showed him photos of various hijackers, and one of Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the attack cordinator, who had been captured in Pakistan. Then he was prescribed antidepressants. Siems was doing an interview about the diary, and in that moment Salahi finally felt as if he was beginning to take back the narrative of his life. 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. Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi discusses his story being adapted as "The Mauritanian", alongside fmr. After a few months, he signed up for the Oregon National Guard, on the military-police track. During a lull in conversation, he turned to Salahi and, gesturing toward Wood and me, said, So, you studied in the United States?. He left the Oregon National Guard, and started working night shifts at a twenty-four-hour gym near Portland. 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. He liked to rile his guards into debating equality, race, and religion, and he wielded a sophisticated understanding of history and geopolitics to chip away at their beliefs. 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. The host, who was a government official, grew agitated, pulled me aside, and urged me not to mention that I had ever been to his house. Before dawn, Salahi was taken to an interrogation room. If you say that you are angry, it is understood as an emotion, he said. Salahi generally avoids Abu Hafsthey have fundamentally different views of Islam, and he worries that any association could further complicate his life. You very much become a child again.. 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. 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. But, on the base, Fallon and his colleagues referred to most detainees as dirt farmers. Lehnert lamented, It takes an Army captain to send someone to Gitmo, and the President of the United States to get them out.. The decision to keep his conversion a secret from everyone in his life made him feel at times as if being Muslim were wrong, even though, in his heart, he still believed. agents visited Salahis cell. Then Abu Hafs greeted Wood, who, appearing paralyzed by confusion, coldly took his hand. Where are you from? one of them said. 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. At a Pakistani Army checkpoint, he slipped a wad of bills into his passport, and went through unquestioned. No prayers, no information about the direction of Mecca. Other men carried box cutters and explosives; Salahi was a ghost on the periphery. Cole, and hoped that some of the men who were being shipped to Guantnamo would have information about the case. I figured Ive seen the guy, but where and when? Salahi wrote in his diary. 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. Out here, Im probably only drinking seven or eight coffees per day, he told me. The hours were unpredictable, with long drives and arduous shifts. Mohamedou Ould Salahi was born in Rosso, Mauritania, the ninth of twelve children of a camel herder. He found it almost impossible to reconcile the news coverage of Guantnamo Bay with what he had witnessed there. He didnt harbor any particular animosity toward Muslims, but he had absorbed his mothers belief: If its not from Jesus then it must be from the Devil. After completing the requirements to become an M.P., Wood enrolled in a criminal-justice program at a nearby community college. I'm a really big believer in Joe Biden. Salahi and Wood sat in front of a laptop, with the Webcam on, and Skyped into a room in Washington. And Steves interest is to impress the girls. Abu Hafs ascended to Al Qaedas Shura Council, where he served as bin Ladens personal adviser on Sharia law. 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. Slahi says his interrogator could not sell his false confessions up the chain of command. Yacoub climbed into the passenger seat. 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.. They were very jumpy, Salahi recalled at his hearing. 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. You trust the handcuffs and everything, but, no matter what, wed never be with him one on onethere would always be a partner, Wood told me. 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. This is my daughter. He began to wonder whether the case against Mohamedou Salahi was as flimsy and politically motivated as that for the invasion had been. They tightened the chains on his ankles and wrists, then threw him into the back of a truck, drove to the water, and loaded him into a speedboat. The decision to simultaneously protect and detain Al Qaeda members was apparently made by Irans spy chief, Qassem Suleimani. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian who lived briefly in Montreal, has launched a $30-million lawsuit against the federal government. A private jet landed, and out climbed a Jordanian rendition team. Wood walked into the main area, which housed the guards; through a door was the prisoners sleeping space. Soon afterward, in a room at the same hotel, the U.S. State Department hosted a training session for Mauritanias security-intelligence apparatus, on Interdiction of Terrorist Activities. Salahi suffered night terrors, and Wood suffered a splitting headache from caffeine withdrawal. Several more days of interrogation followed. Everyone on the team was dressed entirely in black, their faces obscured by balaclavas. Salahi didnt know their real names, and never heard from them again. (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. He was guilty of nothing, Abdellahi told me, and he had not been charged with a crime. Once they do, he will disappear and never be heard from again. Salahi was told to imagine the worst possible scenario he could end up in, and that he would soon disappear down a very dark hole. custody, claimed that Salahi had recruited him into Al Qaeda. with you, and that is to tell me five things that you are grateful for today, he told one of them. Salahi and Wood went around the room shaking hands with bankers, merchants, prefects, doctors. 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. 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. In the third country, the Mauritanian foreign minister greeted Abu Hafs, and accompanied him on the flight to Nouakchott. The next morning, he found two pinhole cameras. . In November of that year, Salahi moved to Montreal, where he began leading prayers at a prominent mosque. 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. Wood was the second of three boys. The men were dragged out of their cells. He refused, saying that he didnt want to jeopardize his future travel. According to an investigation by Der Spiegel, he preached in gloomy back-yard mosques, and remained in occasional contact with jihadismen whose names and cell-phone numbers would turn up in investigations spanning Africa, Europe, North America, and the Middle East. 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. That is not appropriate language, man. 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. 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. One of the men momentarily removed Salahis blindfold, and shined a flashlight into his eyes. But the call to jihad interrupted his studies. Des milliers de livres avec la livraison chez vous en 1 jour ou en magasin avec -5% de rduction ou tlchargez la version eBook. Its so empty, now that Steve left, he said to me. 2023 Cond Nast. Instead, he began to wonder whether what he was actually protecting at Guantnamo was one of the governments darkest secrets: that its highest-value military detainee was being held essentially by mistake, and that his isolation in Echo Special was intended to cover up the hell that had been inflicted upon him. 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. . He was not happyhe didnt want to leave, Abdellahi told me. When the documents were complete, Abu Hafs said, the Mauritanian government booked him on a commercial route that connected through three countries. Salahi had deleted the contents of his phone. One night in October, 2016, Woods phone rang while he was in a Safeway in Portland. Owing to his expertise as an electrical engineer, the dossier concludes, Salahi was also able to describe Al Qaedas elaborate communications systems, including radio relay, couriers, encryption, phone boutiques, and satellite communication links to laptops. But the U.S. government was sure there was more to be gleaned from him; the dossier says that he still has useful information on a variety of subjects, including the 9/11 attacks, and lists twenty-two additional areas of potential exploitation. Military officials considered him the poster child for the intelligence effort at Guantnamo., As a result of Salahis coperation, his private cell was now stocked with what the government referred to as comfort items. After the pillow came soap, towels, a prayer cap, and prayer beadsby the time Steve Wood arrived, Salahi also had books, a television, a PlayStation, and an old laptop, on which he killed time playing chess and watching DVDs. No one will know what happened to him, and eventually, no one will care.. 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." The lead officer couldnt speak Mauritanias Hassaniya Arabic, and Abdellahi hardly understood the Jordanian dialect, so Salahi translated for them. One day, Zuley walked into Salahis cell, carrying a pillow. If I say that I am angry, it is seen as a threat to national security., The next day, Salahi brought Wood and me to a friends wedding party, hosted by Mauritanias best radiologist. After three months, he left Afghanistan and returned to Duisburg, where he worked in a computer-repair shop while he finished his degree. 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. (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. Steve Wood walked into Echo Special in the spring of 2004 unaware of everything that had happened before. It was the pretty blond interrogator bringing in these disks with footage from Al Qaeda and Taliban training camps in Afghanistan, Wood recalled. 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. In all this time, his family had had no official confirmation of his whereabouts. Medical personnel had noted that Salahi had sciatic-nerve issues; now interrogators kept him in stress positions that exacerbated them. This is the exact opposite of whats supposed to happen. I took the pillow as a sign of the end of the physical torture.. In a newly published journal he reveals allegations of torture and sexual abuse. Its their citizen, and its their country.. Afghanistans civil war entered a new stage, with rival Islamist groups vying for control, and Salahi wanted no part of it. lawyer, said, according to the meeting minutes. The first rumors of a planes operation began circulating among Al Qaeda leaders in 1999. . 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. Wood, who was twenty-three, had recently learned that his girlfriend was pregnant. 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. Just remember Allah always has a plan. The man confined there was referred to by his detainee number, 760. (They were no longer brothers-in-law, as Salahi and his wife had divorced.) Like, really stressful. They slept under mosquito nets in Salahis bedroom, and woke up to the sound of a bleating sheep. But the government had abandoned the theory that Salahi knew about 9/11 before it happened. 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. Ahmed is a camel herder, as his father was before him and as his young son Abdullahi will be after him. He told me he hated Jews also. Its not looking good, the presiding military officer replied. 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. One was a self-help book about finding happiness in a hopeless place. The journey to Nouakchott took almost three days, with long layovers in New York and Casablanca. Soon afterward, Canadian investigators came to the apartment and questioned him about the Millennium Plot. 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 . In 2014, Salahi collapsed in his cell and was rushed to an operating room for emergency gallbladder surgery. But Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who spent almost 14 years at Guantnamo and says he was brutally beaten and threatened with execution without ever being charged with a crime, has some advice for his onetime captors: Come clean about what was done to the detainees there, and transfer those accused of committing the Sept. 11 attacks to the United . The local dive shop offered gear and certifications for sailing, water-skiing, snorkelling, scuba diving, and more: No experience, no problem. Wood walked through the camp to Echo Special proud to be part of a serious national-security operation. Its hard to sit there and laugh and chat with the guy, if hes actually that bad, Wood told me. Taliban fighters walked the streets, confident in the support they received from Pakistans intelligence service. But the climactic descriptions of what it took for him to "break" are almost . The U.S. government gathered that in 1991, when Salahi was twenty, he swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden, and the following year he learned to handle weapons at an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. Before his first shift in Echo Special, Wood was told to place a strip of electrical tape over the name on his uniform, and to use only nicknames inside the cell, so that if 760 were to somehow sneak a message out of the camp he couldnt issue fatwas against his guards or their families. 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. Mohamedou Ould Slahi: Yes, I read the same story, and I was sort of excited. By the time Wood left, he had come to accept his guards and interrogators as family. Everyone wants to close Guantnamo, but what will happen to the detainees? (For the past sixty years, the Cuban government has sought to nullify the agreement, and it refuses to cash the checks.) Twelve days later, a group of men charged into Salahis cell with a snarling German shepherd. . 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. Discover Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. A panel of U.S. national security, intelligence, and other officials cleared Slahi for release in July after determining that he poses But I changed my mind after Guantnamo, he told me. An M.P. It will look worse.. O.K., screw it, it is not a problemthey can watch me, he said. He often wakes up shaking, crying, and grinding his teeth. Still, Salahi found his Jordanian interrogators to be highly knowledgeable, and they developed a kind of mutual respect. I executed orders. I thought they were going to execute me, Salahi wrote. Salahi noted that Steve snores likehow do you call it?a steam train.. In 1996, when Abu Hafs was twenty-one, he drafted bin Ladens most important fatwa: an eleven-thousand-word document excoriating the Saudi Kingdom and warning the U.S. Secretary of Defense that Al Qaedas adherents have no intention except to enter paradise by killing you. The fatwa was Al Qaedas declaration of war against the United States. Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantnamo Diary is at least the fifth autobiography by a Guantnamo prisoner. On one page, he recalled the day he got his nickname, when an interrogator brought him a pillow. 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. 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. Several young men mentioned Salahi as a contact in Germany. Mitchell argued that, by reverse-engineering this program, interrogators could overwhelm whatever resistance training a detainee might have absorbed from the Manchester manual. Case of Mohamedou Ould Slahi. They look like a prison uniform with stripes! Salahi also pushed him to research Western foreign-policy blundersfor example, that in 1953 the American and the British intelligence services had orchestrated a coup in Iran, overthrowing a popular Prime Minister in order to prop up a tyrannical, pro-Western Shah. 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. And Jodie Foster, 58, was spotted enjoying some. That May, U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden, and collected more than a million documents from his compound in northern Pakistan; among them was a letter from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, seeking the central leaderships blessing to enter into a secret agreement with the Mauritanian government. 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. Every other week, when Red Cross representatives visited the prison, Salahi and a handful of other C.I.A. 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. One day in November, after burying several friends, Abu Hafs sought out an Al Jazeera journalist. Mauritania is much bigger than Guantnamo Bayyou can move around. But I insist on freedom., Another liberty Salahi identified as having been taken from him is that of expressing the full range of human feelings. One of the Algerian jihadis was Ahmed Ressam, a serial thief who was living in Canada under a false identity. While he was held at Gitmo, Slahi was repeatedly tortured in an . Eventually, one of the interrogators told Salahi that he was going to be sent to Mauritania for more questioning. Summer/Autumn 2015. 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. 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. Force-feeding during the daylight hours of Ramadan, when Muslims are supposed to fast. Then one of them shouted, Pillow, you can come out now! A short man in his mid-thirties stepped into the guards area, unshackled. He stayed that way for hours. ECCHR, which represents Mohamedou Ould Slahi together with partner lawyer Matthias Lehnert, calls on the authorities to speed up the procedure for issuing his visa and to conclude it swiftly. True, you didnt choose this family, nor did you grow up with it, but its a family all the same, he wrote in his diary. 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