This is my daughter. Wood, then a member of the. Military personnel took his biometric information, and logged his health problemsincluding a damaged sciatic nervethen led him to a cell. 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. After a hustled day of tackling a myriad of issues and directly contributing to the global war on terrorism, it reads, fun awaits. Officers could partake in pottery classes, paintball, rugby, tennis, and softball, or exercise in several pools and gyms. The F.B.I. From the floor of Parliament, Badre Eddine noted that Mauritania has no extradition treaty with the United States. Abu Hafs spent the next decade in relative luxury, exercising alongside foreign diplomats in one of Tehrans swankiest gyms, and looking after bin Ladens sons along with his own. came to much the same conclusion.) He alleges Canadian officials made false claims about him that . . 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. Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. He was accused of being a part of the Al-Qaeda by the American government. Eventually, one of the interrogators told Salahi that he was going to be sent to Mauritania for more questioning. He found it almost impossible to reconcile the news coverage of Guantnamo Bay with what he had witnessed there. They named him Ahmed, and Salahi asked Wood to be the godfather. 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. The guards would rush in to save him and the chaos would start again. The doors of my house are open.. In Amman, Jordan, Salahi was hooded and taken to a detention facility in the headquarters of the countrys General Intelligence Directorate. In addition to Salahis abdominal pain, and regular migraines, he still suffers from night terrors. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian national, was detained for 14 years at Guantnamo Bay. 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. But, hey, I have to cope with it. 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. Moreover, he is handicapped. 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. had been torturing detainees at black sites for several months; now the Guantnamo leadership wanted to understand the legal gymnastics that would be required to implement a program of their own. The Mauritanian, Kevin Macdonald's movie based on the true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man . Where is Mullah Omar? they asked. On the other end of the line was a man whose voice he hadnt heard in more than eleven years. An American woman, who he assumed was an intelligence officer, entered the room, and stood by as a Senegalese officer questioned him about the Millennium Plot. Wood contacted one of Salahis lawyers, using a made-up name and a new e-mail address, to inquire about Salahis well-being and the status of his case. Walid, who was thirteen, started reading bin Ladens pamphlets. Ahmed is a camel herder, as his father was before him and as his young son Abdullahi will be after him. Neither of them knew that the United States had asked Mauritanias President to hand over Salahi to a rendition team. . In Nouakchott, Abdellahi waited for updates from the C.I.A. Ive finally found a way to reuse all our wine corks!, If youd like, I can set you up with a bullet I dodged.. Abdellahi had bought him a new outfit, but Salahi had refused to eat, and the fabric was loose on his shoulders. Mohamedou Ould Salahi was born in Rosso, Mauritania, the ninth of twelve children of a camel herder. We got to the site at sunrise; the sky was a hazy, muted orange, from wildfires burning to the south. 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. There were no weapons of mass destruction. You could always tell when someone got IRFed, as the detainees throughout the camp would start chanting and screaming, Neely recalled. When Wood agreed to talk about Salahi for a TV documentary, Wendys parents staged an intervention. In the U.S., it was morning. At first, Salahi was relievedhe assumed that the Americans had come to understand his irrelevance to 9/11 and the Millennium Plot, and that he was being sent back to Mauritania. A security guard handed him a filthy black turban, to hide his face during the drive to the secret-police headquarters. But he subsequently forgot the log-in information, and so he never saw a reply. Salahi became Slahi. So began a life in which governments treated Salahi in accordance with their own mistakes. I was, like, Maybe hes right. (In fact, the 9/11 plot was organized more than a year before bin al-Shibh visited Duisburg.) He stayed that way for hours. Is this something that happens to people who have little external stimulus such as daylight, human interaction etc???? It was a temporary facility, he explained, while he raises money to build a mosque. I just kind of shrugged it off, like, What does it matter? They decided to get a divorce. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Every other week, when Red Cross representatives visited the prison, Salahi and a handful of other C.I.A. 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. Yee, who had converted to Islam in the early nineties, sent a request up the chain of command, but was rebuffed. The interrogations covered the same topics as before: Abu Hafs; Al Qaedas training camps in 1992; the Millennium Plot. Echo Special was a trailer that had been divided in two. I really think that he's a good man. In a newly published journal he reveals allegations of torture and sexual abuse. On October 17, 2001, Abu Hafss madrassa took a direct hit from a missile. Eventually, Salahi understood that bin al-Shibh was one of the three men who had stayed at his apartment in Germany for a night, in October, 1999; the other two had become 9/11 hijackers. Wood became secretive about his calls with Salahi; Wendy began to suspect that he was having an affair. Wahrheit macht frei, the officer saidthe truth sets you free. When he refused to back out of the interview, Wendy insisted that he wear an on-camera disguise. 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. 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. black sites and military facilities. Anyway, he said, I know you are part of the Millennium Plot.. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 50, has never been convicted of any crime or even charged with any offence. He was left for hours in the Caribbean sun. 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. Seems a little creepy., Sensory deprivation can cause hallucinations, usually visual rather than auditory, but you never know, Zierhoffer replied. The evidence against him lacked depth, but investigators considered its breadth conclusive. 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. He was guilty of nothing, Abdellahi told me, and he had not been charged with a crime. Were gonna feed you up your ass, an interrogator said. I just remember being super excited, because I thought, Im going to be doing something important, Wood told me. The man confined there was referred to by his detainee number, 760. He wore a broad smile and a white jumpsuit, and moved cautiously toward Wood. One day in the spring of 2012, Abu Hafs slipped out of custody during a visit to the gym. One night in October, 1999, a friend of Salahis asked him to host three Muslims who were passing through Duisburg. 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. There are so many Ahmeds that itll be difficult for them to put him on the no-fly list, Salahi joked. His whole reputation rested on this fiction. Salahi, I wish I were not part of this shit, he said. Recently released "Guantnamo Diary" author Mohamedou Slahi gives a heartfelt thanks to his supporters in this moving new video, filmed where he belongs: at home with his family. He told me he hated Jews also. As they walked to the car, Salahi dug into Woods personal life. 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. For the next two months, Abu Hafs taught jihadi recruits at a madrassa. On his third visit, he told two Saudi students that he wanted to become a Muslim. On May 22nd, Salahis lead F.B.I. 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. One day, Zuley walked into Salahis cell, carrying a pillow. I thought there would be a lot of formalities, especially for a terrorist suspect such as myself, but nothing like that happened, Salahi wrote. The next day, Abu Hafs invited me to his house, in one of Nouakchotts most expensive neighborhoods. Where is Abu Hafs? one of them asked. Another officer tried to build rapport with Salahi by speaking to him in German. But Salahi was shackled to the floor, so he could do so only hunched over. I dont remember whether I hit the floor or was caught by the other guards. This winter, Steve Wood set off for Mauritania. 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.. In the spring of 1992, Salahi returned to Afghanistan. Soon afterward, in Guantnamo Bay, Salahi saw his own face on a TV screen. 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. was funding and equipping many of the mujahideen groups. 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. Man, youve had a really tough time of it, he said. 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. He did not respond to requests for comment.) They prayed together, ate together, and enjoyed a picnic of bread and tea in the dunes of the Sahara. She is my life. Never turn your back, the sergeant major warned him. 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! On August 13th, Donald Rumsfeld authorized the interrogation plan for Salahi. He denied involvement with terrorism and was never charged with a crime. 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. But the government appealed, and Salahi stayed in Guantnamo. Meanwhile, his subordinates continued to collect bribes from Salahis family. On the night of July 19, 2002, the Jordanians transported Mohamedou Salahi, blindfolded and in chains, to the airport in Amman, where a new team took over. No, Im an ex-prisoner of Guantnamo Bay, Salahi replied, instantly ending the conversation. The mission had not been accomplished. When Wood watched the evening news, he saw photographs of American M.P.s torturing and sexually humiliating Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib. Before dawn, Salahi was taken to an interrogation room. The detainee introduced himself as Mohamedou Salahi, then reached for a handshake, and said, Whats up, dude?. By the following day, the lead Senegalese officer was convinced that there was no reason to hold Salahi. All I can tell you is to tell the truth. They hugged. In Arabic countries there are oodles, but in Europe and Canada one is very rare.. Salahi was led to a small private aircraft. Larry Siems visited Salahi in Mauritania, and they set about filling in the redactions in the book. How could he possibly know? Salahi agreed, and Abu Hafs wired around four thousand dollars to his German account. 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. Ad Choices. I was thinking, Those were the worst people the world had to offer?, Investigators had the same question. I felt this decision stemmed from the commands desire to be able to tell the media that we gave all detainees a Quran out of sensitivity to their religious needs, he wrote. He wouldnt take any chances. Its not looking good, the presiding military officer replied. It was the spring of 2004. (Forty people remain in the camp, at an annual cost of some ten million dollars a detainee.) I think we all became friends. But he wasnt sure that Salahi believed him. Afghanistans civil war entered a new stage, with rival Islamist groups vying for control, and Salahi wanted no part of it. 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. ), In October, 2004, Woods girlfriend gave birth to a daughter, Summer. Other men carried box cutters and explosives; Salahi was a ghost on the periphery. Wood left for the airport at 4 A.M. Salahi spent much of the day watching YouTube compilations of the worst American Idol auditions. They took off from Uzbekistan and flew into northern Afghanistan, over the snow-capped mountains of the Hindu Kush. And in. Another two years passed before Salahis name caught the attention of Deddahi Ould Abdellahi, the head of Mauritanias security-intelligence apparatus. Herrington later reported that the interrogators were unsure of the real names of more than half the detainees. But the procedure wasnt carried out properlyhe continued to be in painand by the summer of 2016 it was clear that he required corrective laparoscopic surgery. My cell expanded, the lights became brighter, colors more colorful, the sun shone warmer and gentler, and everyone around me looked friendlier, he wrote. The next morning, he found two pinhole cameras. One of the hardest things to do is to tell an untruthful story and maintain it, and that is exactly where I was stuck., On September 8th, Salahi asked to speak to Zuley. It was the first time in my thirty-year CIA career that I had ever heard an order to kill someone, Schroen wrote. He had spent much of the past fifteen months in Yemen, investigating Al Qaedas bombing of the U.S.S. By 1990, the Soviets had withdrawn from Afghanistan, but Al Qaeda was still fighting against the Communist Afghan government that the Soviets had installed. It was the pretty blond interrogator bringing in these disks with footage from Al Qaeda and Taliban training camps in Afghanistan, Wood recalled. It didnt take my interrogator a whole lot of time to understand the situation. Another American official arrived, and took Salahis photograph and fingerprints. 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. I pictured my family already having prepared the Iftar fast-breaking food, my mom mumbling her prayers while duly working the modest delicacies, everybody looking for the sun to take its last steps and hide beneath the horizon, Salahi wrote. So empty., In recent months, the push for Salahis passport has taken on new urgency. 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. Mohamedou Ould Salahi, from Mauritania, was born in 1970. All he saw was a rat, Salahi wrote. Walid was a prodigious poetin Nouakchott, he had won several awardsand when bin Laden met him he was impressed by his eloquence and conviction. I am denied my freedom because I was denied my freedom, Salahi said. 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. 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. 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. Neely jumped on top of him, and forced his face into the concrete floor. Did this license lead Alex Murdaugh to commit fraud after fraudand then kill his wife and son? I wish you good luck, the agent said. A lot of these prisoners were actually looking forward to being handed over to the Americans, figuring it would be pretty obvious they werent Al Qaeda. Yet hundreds of them were sent to Guantnamo Bay, which ended up housing seven hundred and eighty people. At sunrise, the plane landed at Bagram Airfield, the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan. I Tweeted it. I told him I have no problem with the Jews, either, man. 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. On one page, he recalled the day he got his nickname, when an interrogator brought him a pillow. Salahi told Wood that he had written four more books in detention, but he hadnt been allowed to take them out of Guantnamo. If the detainee dies, youre doing it wrong. (Fredman has disputed the accuracy of the meeting minutes. Mauritanian immigration officials detained him for an hourhere was a giant American, all muscle and veins, saying that he had met Salahi in Guantnamo Baybut eventually one of Salahis nephews persuaded them to let Wood in. Until recently, the guards and the interrogators had worn Halloween masks inside the cell. Once, on a technical assignment, Salahi had been photographed near the President of Mauritania; now the lead interrogator accused Salahi of having plotted to kill him. The Bush Administration had decided that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to the war on terror, which meant that the men captured abroad could be deprived of the rights of prisoners of war. Since then, the U.S. military has exposed some lite soldiers to the techniques, to prepare them for the kinds of abuses they might encounter should they be captured by terrorist groups or governments that dont abide by the Geneva Conventions. (They were no longer brothers-in-law, as Salahi and his wife had divorced.) 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. By now, he had enough information about the kind of story he had to craft, because, he wrote, through my conversations with the FBI and the DoD, I had a good idea as to what wild theories the government had about me., Zuley walked in, and Salahi started lying. 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. All I had were some numbers of business partners in Mauritania and Germany, he later wrote, but I didnt want the U.S. government harassing those peaceful people just because I had their numbers in my phone. One of the contacts was listed as P.C. Just remember Allah always has a plan. He said he needs fuel, Salahi explained to Abdellahi. 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. They drove to the airport in silence, in Abdellahis black Mercedes. (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. 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. For many years, Mohamedou Slahi was considered one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world. Published now for the first time, Guantanamo . 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. Instead, they are tried by secret military commissionsif they are tried at all. Salahi had deleted the contents of his phone. Most of his incarceration was spent in a cell at a detention camp at. 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. Around that time, after a long period without contact, Abu Hafs called Salahi from bin Ladens satellite phone. Everyone on the team was dressed entirely in black, their faces obscured by balaclavas. Today Slahi, who is now 50, resides back home in Mauritania, though he is far from free. He never told Wendy about his conversion. I was an agent of the state. Soon afterward, they travelled together to Sudan, where bin Laden ran a construction company and a jihadi training camp, and sped around Khartoum in bin Ladens white Mercedes. For seventy-six days, he lived in solitary confinement, in a cold cell with surveillance cameras and the lights always on. Who are these guys? Most of the names were Afghan or Pakistani, and the Arabs who were on the list certainly werent recognizable to me and my colleagues who had been working Al Qaeda for years. A few weeks later, after McFadden visited the detention camp, he concluded that the detainees were essentially nobodies. He told me, There was not anyone approaching even the most liberal interpretation of a high-value detainee., In Afghanistan, the U.S. military was inadvertently presiding over a kidnapping-and-ransom industry. Guantnamo Diary and the American Slave Narrative. In all this time, his family had had no official confirmation of his whereabouts. He bolted through the changing room and into the street, dressed in his gym clothes, and hailed a taxi to the Mauritanian Embassy in Tehran. In November of that year, Salahi moved to Montreal, where he began leading prayers at a prominent mosque. His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022 . . At the time, Slahi had been in captivity for two years, accused of acts of terrorism. That was my thinkingthat he was sufficiently intelligent and well informed to help any intelligence service that might ask him for help.. Abu Hafs was back in Afghanistan, living with his family in Kandahar. In October 2016 he made it home after 14 years in Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, where the U.S. government had imprisoned and tortured him as a suspected terrorist. Amna Nawaz: He was tortured by his American interrogators, subjected to solitary confinement,. In 1999, shortly after graduating from high school, Wood started a job at the local sawmill. During the next several days, Abu Hafs travelled toward the Pakistani province of Balochistan. team and their Afghan counterparts travelled through much of northern Afghanistan, laying the groundwork for the U.S. military invasion. He knew what he expected to hear. Salahi and Wood went around the room shaking hands with bankers, merchants, prefects, doctors. I am not in Afghanistan, Salahi replied. Summer/Autumn 2015. IRFing typically involved a team of six or more men dressed in riot gear: the first man would pepper-spray the detainee, then charge into the cell and, using a heavy shield and his body weight, tackle the detainee; the rest would jump on top, shackling or binding the detainee until he was no longer moving. Salahi didnt know their real names, and never heard from them again. The U.S. military prison's leadership considered Mohamedou Salahi to be its highest-value detainee. ; mosques in Duisburg; and his cousin Abu Hafs al-Mauritani. Id come home and iron my uniform, and my roommates didnt know a thing, he said. Not long afterward, in mid-November, Salahis boss sent him to Mauritanias Presidential palace, to install Internet routers and update the phones. You can receive millions of dollars, one of the flyers said. 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