Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi & Larry Siems

Author:Mohamedou Ould Slahi & Larry Siems [Slahi, Mohamedou Ould & Siems, Larry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Autobiography & Memoirs
ISBN: 9781782112846
Google: 4tfhoQEACAAJ
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2015-01-20T06:00:00+00:00

The camp was locked down the whole day. Around 10 p.m. I was pulled out of my cell and taken to ■■■■■■■■■ building. The room was extremely cold. I hate to be woken up for interrogation, and my heart was pounding: Why would they take me so late?

I don’t know how long I’d been in the room, maybe two hours. I was just shaking. I made my mind up not to argue anymore with the interrogators. I’m just gonna sit there like a stone, and let them do the talking, I said to myself. Many detainees decided to do so. They were taken day after day to interrogation in order to break them. I am sure some got broken because nobody can bear agony the rest of his life.

After letting me sweat, or let’s say “shake,” for a couple hours, I was taken to another room ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■, where ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ sat. This room was acceptably cold. The military people were watching and listening from another room as usual.

“We couldn’t take you during the day because the camp was locked down,” said ■■■■■■■■■. “We had to take you now, because ■■■■■■■■■■■■ is leaving tomorrow.”

I didn’t open my mouth. ■■■■■■■■■ sent his friends out. “What’s wrong with you?” he said. “Are you OK? Did anything happen to you?” But no matter how he tried, there was no making me talk.

The team decided to take me back to the cold room. Maybe it wasn’t so cold for somebody wearing regular shoes, underwear, and a jacket like the interrogators, but it was definitely cold for a detainee with flip-flops and no underwear whatsoever.

“Talk to us!” ■■■■■■■■■ said. “Since you refuse to talk, ■■■■■■■■■■■■ is going to talk to you anyway.”

■■■■■■■■■■■■ started his lecture, “We have been giving you an opportunity, but you don’t seem to want to take advantage of it. Now it’s too late, because I am going to share some information with you.”

■■■■■■■■■■■■ put down three big pictures of four individuals who are believed to be involved in the September 11 attack. “This guy is ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■. He was captured ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ and since then I’ve been interrogating him.* I know more about him than he knows about himself. He was forthcoming and truthful with me. What he told me goes along with what we know about him. He said that he came to your house on advice of a guy named ■■■■■■■■■■■■■, whom he met on a train. ■■■■■■■■■■■ wanted somebody to help him getting to Chechnya.”

“That was around Oct 1999,” he continued. “He showed up at your house with these two guys,” he said, pointing at ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ and ■■■■■■■■■■■■■. “The other guy,” he said, pointing at Atta, “was not able to see you because he had a test. You advised them to travel through Afghanistan instead of Georgia, because their Arab faces would give them away and they probably would have been turned back. Furthermore, you gave them a phone contact in Quetta of a guy named ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■. These guys traveled shortly after that meeting with you to Afghanistan, met Usama Bin Laden, and swore a pledge to him.

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