Mohamedou Ould Salahi, from Mauritania, was born in 1970. He was very silly. 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. After Salahi was processed, he spent thirty days in a cold isolation cell, a practice that the U.S. government considered a main building block of the exploitation process, as it allows the captor total control over personal inputs. When the isolation period was over, Salahi learned from other detainees that there was a difference in opinion between those who had lived in European democracies and those who had lived only in Muslim countries, with the latter group arguing that Americas war on terror was an anti-Muslim crusade. It is basically subject to perception. It was the spring of 2004. The Mauritanian: The True Story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi The 50-year-old was detained for 14 years without being charged with a crime By Laura Martin 31 Mar 2021 This year sees the 20th. 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. (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. See if you think his captivity was just. He no longer derived much solace from Islam, and rarely prayed. But I give him advice, and he takes it., Mauritania was the site of regular jihadi violence in the second half of the aughts, while Abu Hafs was living in Iran. Defense attorneys have accused the government of denying them access to evidence, leaving secret recording equipment in client meeting rooms, and infiltrating their legal teams; a few years ago, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who may face the death penalty, recognized a linguist on his own defense team from a C.I.A. After roughly three weeks, F.B.I. En 2005, trois ans aprs son arrestation, Mohamedou a commenc rdiger un journal. At that time, Slahi was seen as one of the most important detainees at Guantanamo with allegations that he had helped organise the 9/11 attacks. Striking horror, panic, and fear in the hearts of the enemies of Allah is a divine commandment. He added that American citizens should blame their law-enforcement and intelligence agencieswith their satellites, ground stations, millions of spies, and huge budgetsfor the fact that the hijackers had found a security breach as big as a whole fleet of hijacked civilian aircraft, and managed to shove Americas nose into the ground.. Wood, then a member of the. 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. At the beginning, Mohamedou wanted to be docile and sweet, he said. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was born on 21 December, 1970, is a Writer. Yacoub climbed into the passenger seat. team and their Afghan counterparts travelled through much of northern Afghanistan, laying the groundwork for the U.S. military invasion. One day they would deprive him of food, and the next theyd force him to drink water until he vomited. I hope you treasure every minute of strangers telling you to treasure every minute., I ordered my meal more than an hour ago! They married in 2010, and had a child six years later. I am denied my freedom because I was denied my freedom, Salahi said. Bush Administration lawyers had taken the position that enemy combatants could be held indefinitely, without trials, and that in order for something to qualify as torture it must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death. By the end of the following year, Salahi knew more about classified security operations than any private American citizen. Its hard to sit there and laugh and chat with the guy, if hes actually that bad, Wood told me. He had spent much of the past fifteen months in Yemen, investigating Al Qaedas bombing of the U.S.S. By Ben Taub April 15, 2019 Mohamedou Salahi spent more. ), One night, Salahi awoke to the sound of a tiny hole being drilled into his wall. In Amman, Jordan, Salahi was hooded and taken to a detention facility in the headquarters of the countrys General Intelligence Directorate. But he thought, What the fuck is this? Ressam told investigators that he had planned to detonate suitcases in a crowded terminal at Los Angeles International Airport. Ive finally found a way to reuse all our wine corks!, If youd like, I can set you up with a bullet I dodged.. It didnt take my interrogator a whole lot of time to understand the situation. Another American official arrived, and took Salahis photograph and fingerprints. 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. Torture has been prohibited by international law, but the language of the statutes is written vaguely, Jonathan Fredman, a senior C.I.A. He was terrifiedhe wanted to go back to Canada, where interrogators behaved within the bounds of the law. Later that summer, Abu Hafs wrote a twelve-page dissent, but bin Laden bristled at his defiance, and the objections of other Al Qaeda leaders, and moved forward. The local dive shop offered gear and certifications for sailing, water-skiing, snorkelling, scuba diving, and more: No experience, no problem. 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. 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 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. Soon afterward, in Guantnamo Bay, Salahi saw his own face on a TV screen. The next morning, Salahi was led to the office of the Mauritanian intelligence chief, Deddahi Ould Abdellahi. It was the pretty blond interrogator bringing in these disks with footage from Al Qaeda and Taliban training camps in Afghanistan, Wood recalled. ), Later that month, a military lawyer named Diane Beaver drafted a legal justificationdescribed later by a congressional inquiry on torture as profoundly in error and legally insufficientfor a set of abusive interrogation techniques. During the next few months, Wood showed up between prayer times, to avoid any pressure to participate. 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. I was, like, Maybe hes right. (In fact, the 9/11 plot was organized more than a year before bin al-Shibh visited Duisburg.) Meanwhile, the Bush Administrations pretext for invading Iraq was collapsing, and so was Woods trust in government. By 1990, the Soviets had withdrawn from Afghanistan, but Al Qaeda was still fighting against the Communist Afghan government that the Soviets had installed. 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. 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. And, by the way, I pay my boy, he added, unprompted. One day in November, after burying several friends, Abu Hafs sought out an Al Jazeera journalist. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Neely jumped on top of him, and forced his face into the concrete floor. 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. He wore a broad smile and a white jumpsuit, and moved cautiously toward Wood. 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. 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. 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. Abu Hafs walked into the house ahead of us, and disappeared into the crowd. He also contacted another guard from Echo Special. 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. 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. Salahi told Wood that he had written four more books in detention, but he hadnt been allowed to take them out of Guantnamo. 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. It was cheaper to fly to Dakar than to Nouakchott, and his brothers drove three hundred miles to meet him there. 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. 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. 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,. No chairs, no lying down, no more access to his prescription pain medication. Two UNM School of Law graduates, Nancy Hollander ('78) and Teri Duncan ('00), represented Mohamedou between 2005 and 2016, when he was finally released. You could always tell when someone got IRFed, as the detainees throughout the camp would start chanting and screaming, Neely recalled. 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. Another officer tried to build rapport with Salahi by speaking to him in German. Slahi says his interrogator could not sell his false confessions up the chain of command. In Nouakchott, Abdellahis men detained Salahi again in the fall of 2001, at the request of the Americans. You will have a job at the snap of a finger, his friend told him. In all this time, his family had had no official confirmation of his whereabouts. But with these people you cannot be likable. But Amanda is an American, and so their son is now a citizen of the country whose purported values Salahi wants to believe in but has never seen. Abdellahi had bought him a new outfit, but Salahi had refused to eat, and the fabric was loose on his shoulders. In the U.S., it was morning. The Americans supplied the questions, and the Jordanians extracted the responses, often through coercive means. 2023 Cond Nast. Comments. Salahi and Wood sat in front of a laptop, with the Webcam on, and Skyped into a room in Washington. They said I was bringing shame upon the family, and protecting a terrorist, Wood recalled. It was January 11, 2002. 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. I received the present with a fake overwhelming happiness, and not because I was dying to get a pillow, he wrote. But, in practice, IRFing was often done as a form of revenge, initiated liberallyfor example, when a detainee was found to have two plastic cups instead of one, or refused to drink a bottle of Ensure, because he thought that he was being given poison. He was not happyhe didnt want to leave, Abdellahi told me. At the time, Slahi had been in captivity for two years, accused of acts of terrorism. It was the first time Wood had encountered the Quran. After 9/11, patriotism eclipsed restlessness as Woods primary motivation to serve. I had started to lose feeling and it would have made no difference anyway.. He refused, saying that he didnt want to jeopardize his future travel. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who underwent brutal interrogations while he was held at Guantnamo Bay, is a free man in Mauritania after nearly 15 years as a detainee. They took off from Uzbekistan and flew into northern Afghanistan, over the snow-capped mountains of the Hindu Kush. Mohamedou Ould Sah es uno de tantos casos que estn sufriendo en una prisin, acusados de delitos que no cometieron. The anteroom was filled with Mauritanian dignitaries and lites, all men, sitting on couches that lined the perimeter. Several of his co-workers were missing fingers, and the manager took every opportunity to denigrate the staff. agents threatened Salahi with torture, and tried to intimidate him. Because detainees are not in U.S. territory, the government has not allowed them to be tried in U.S. courts. Salahi and I sat on either side of the leader of a political party that has more than a hundred and fifty seats in Parliament. 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. By the time Wood left, he had come to accept his guards and interrogators as family. Another two years passed before Salahis name caught the attention of Deddahi Ould Abdellahi, the head of Mauritanias security-intelligence apparatus. . A similar phone call, followed by a second transaction, took place in December, 1998. He denied involvement with terrorism and was never charged with a crime. special agent, was eager to receive the flight manifest. Salahi generally avoids Abu Hafsthey have fundamentally different views of Islam, and he worries that any association could further complicate his life. 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. Now bin al-Shibh, who was being tortured in C.I.A. It was silly, but if you get scared you are not you anymore. That was my thinkingthat he was sufficiently intelligent and well informed to help any intelligence service that might ask him for help.. He's a believer. Only one of the twenty-six interrogators was capable of working without an interpreter. 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. During the next several days, Abu Hafs travelled toward the Pakistani province of Balochistan. You must forget your fear to achieve anything., Last summer, Salahi completed an online course to become a certified life coach. Shortly before the first detainees arrived, Robert McFadden, an N.C.I.S. They were afraid that I would kill some people.. Wood left for the airport at 4 A.M. Salahi spent much of the day watching YouTube compilations of the worst American Idol auditions. He grabbed his shortwave radio. He wrote a letter to his wife and children, but there was no way to send it, and so he kept it in a pocket in his robes. (Until 2007, a terrorist sanctions list included Salahis name as an alias for Abu Hafs.). One day, after an interrogator kicked a Quran across the floor, detainees organized a mass suicide attempt. After that, whenever anybody tried to explain anything to the guy, he always asked, Compare it with the rat: Is it bigger? In 2005, Mauritania had a military coupthe typical way in which power has changed hands since independence. 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. For some thirty hours, Salahi was strapped to a board. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 45, was subjected in 2003 to a special interrogation at Guantnamo Bay. When he learned that a military review board would consider releasing Salahi, he wrote a letter saying that, based on my interactions with Mr. Slahi in Guantnamo, I would be pleased to welcome him into my home, and offering to testify in person. Like, what is a motherfucker? The Senegalese did the talking, but the Americans provided the questions and reported back to D.C. As two M.P.s dragged him to the holding area, someone tossed his prosthetic leg out of the bus. 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. 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. Echo Special was a trailer that had been divided in two. Its not just, Yes, I did! No, it doesnt work that way: you have to make up a complete story that makes sense to the dumbest dummies. 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. With the assistance of German intelligence, Abdellahi told me, we started collecting the maximum amount of information. It was my way of telling him, Man, I trust you. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge. With a movie based on his ordeal. It was Ramadan again. Walid, who was sixteen, stayed behind. In public, the Bush Administration and its military leadership asserted that Guantnamo was filled with men who would stop at nothing to destroy the U.S. The first rumors of a planes operation began circulating among Al Qaeda leaders in 1999. His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022 . The Mauritanian is stunningly tragic and leaves audiences with a host of questions about how its events were allowed to take place, but another notable issue is why the Obama administration blocked Mohamedou Ould Slahi's release from Guantanamo Bay. Today Slahi, who is now 50, resides back home in Mauritania, though he is far from free. In time, Yee came to believe that Islam was systematically used as a weapon against the prisoners. Guards mocked the call to prayer, and manipulated Islamic principles of modestyby having female guards watch naked detainees in the showers, for exampleto create tension as an excuse to exact violence. On March 22, 2010, a U.S. district-court judge named James Robertson ruled on Salahis petition to be released. The U.S. military prison's leadership considered Mohamedou Salahi to be its highest-value detainee. In the restored edition, Salahi added, I want to repeat and affirm this message here, and to say that now that I am home, that dream is also an invitation. His detention at Guantnamo Bay grabbed a lot of attention worldwide. One of the men momentarily removed Salahis blindfold, and shined a flashlight into his eyes. 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. detainees were whisked to the cellar, to be hidden from view. 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. 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." Until recently, the guards and the interrogators had worn Halloween masks inside the cell. This winter, Steve Wood set off for Mauritania. Wed try to cover it back up, real quick, but eventually we were, like, fuck it. Is this something that happens to people who have little external stimulus such as daylight, human interaction etc???? Instead, the men stripped him naked, strapped a diaper on him, and swapped out his shackles for a heavier set. 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. lawyer, said, according to the meeting minutes. This is my daughter. After a near-fatal stabbingand decades of threatsthe novelist speaks about writing as a death-defying act. But I changed my mind after Guantnamo, he told me. His father died in a plane crash when he was three years old, and his mother brought him and his brothers up in Molalla, Oregon, a lumber town about an hour south of Portland. He remains locked inside the notorious naval base. Wood was the second of three boys. A panel of U.S. national security, intelligence, and other officials cleared Slahi for release in . Mitchell argued that, by reverse-engineering this program, interrogators could overwhelm whatever resistance training a detainee might have absorbed from the Manchester manual. 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. After. Nevertheless, he spent 14 years of captivity in America's notorious Guantanamo Bay prison,. 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. He gently held Salahis shoulder, and said, Everythings O.K. Salahi shook his head, and clicked his tongue in disagreement, but refused to speak. He identified himself as Captain Collins, a Navy officer who had been sent to Guantnamo by the White House. Published now for the first time, Guantanamo . In November of that year, Salahi moved to Montreal, where he began leading prayers at a prominent mosque. 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. Mohamedou Ould Salahi Net Worth & Basic source of earning is being a successful Mauritanian Writer. He stopped praying in public. 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. According to a senior U.S. diplomat, when the United States was negotiating the terms of his return, the Mauritanians did agree that they would not give him a passport for some x amount of time. Two and a half years later, Salahi and his lawyers have no clarity about the parameters of x, or about why the United States has any say in whether the Mauritanian government issues a passport to a Mauritanian. In July, 2001, according to Scott-Clark and Levy, the authors of The Exile, Abu Hafs handed bin Laden his resignation letter. 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. In isolated, poor regions of South Carolina, coming from an lite familyoffereda feeling of impunity. They werent the only people taken by this strugglethe C.I.A. I told him I have no problem with the Jews, either, man. I really have no questions for you, because I know your case, Abdellahi told him. 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 he did not consider himself a member of Al Qaeda, or a facilitator of its operations. 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. 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. On September 26th, Schroen and six other officers loaded an aging Soviet helicopter with weapons, tactical gear, and three million dollars in used, nonconsecutive bills. Salahi withdrew the cash and gave it to friends who were travelling to Nouakchott, and they delivered it to Abu Hafss family. Force-feeding during the daylight hours of Ramadan, when Muslims are supposed to fast. They were told not to wait for Salahi. Allah! Its so empty, now that Steve left, he said to me. She is my life. A former leader of several provinces explained to me that Abu Hafs, bin Ladens former Sharia adviser, is now an adviser to the President. Salahi had deleted the contents of his phone. Over dinner, they explained that they were heading east, for the jihad. He was a victim of an extremely rare crime: that a country had kidnapped its own citizen and handed it over to a foreign country, outside of the justice system, outside of all legal processes, Brahim Ebety, the Salahi familys lawyer in Nouakchott, told me. That day, the leader of Salahis interrogation came in. An officer shouted Code Red! into a radio, and the Internal Reaction Force team raced to the scene and hog-tied him. But, after Salahi returned to Germany, they had scarcely been in touch. He had spent the morning of the worst terrorist attack in American history lying on his mothers couch, high on painkillers after a tonsillectomy, but when he emerged from the haze he was angry, focussed, and longing for deployment. custody, claimed that Salahi had recruited him into Al Qaeda. I really think that he's a good man. Salahi, who hadnt been home since 1993, was filled with nostalgia and dread. Allah! Pendant des mois, il a crit ses mmoires . 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. Amna Nawaz: He was tortured by his American interrogators, subjected to solitary confinement,. They asked me do I know Ahmed Ressam. My cell expanded, the lights became brighter, colors more colorful, the sun shone warmer and gentler, and everyone around me looked friendlier, he wrote. Military personnel took his biometric information, and logged his health problemsincluding a damaged sciatic nervethen led him to a cell. Mohamedou Ould Salahi was born in Rosso, Mauritania, the ninth of twelve children of a camel herder. He let you down! An interrogation memo listed plans to shave Salahis head and beard, dress him in a burqa, and make him bark and perform dog tricks, to reduce the detainees ego and establish control.. The U.S. government concluded that he was the leader of the Montreal-based al-Qaida cell., In Guantnamo, Salahi admitted to this and other allegations. Salahi was terrified. While Salahi was being tortured, James Yee, the Muslim military chaplain, discovered that he and the interpreters at Guantnamomany of whom were Muslim Americans, with Middle Eastern backgroundswere being spied on by law-enforcement and intelligence officers. I was thinking, Those were the worst people the world had to offer?, Investigators had the same question. 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