Blindfold by Theo Padnos

Author:Theo Padnos [Padnos, Theo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

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One afternoon in mid-March, a guard brought an electric razor to our cell. He shaved Matt’s head and mine. Abu Sofiane, who had short hair as it was, didn’t require a shave. A day or so later, the same guard brought an orange jumpsuit to the cell. “You will make a video,” the guard explained.

When it was my turn to stand in front of the camera, a Canadian-accented jihadi asked me questions, in English, about my career as CIA agent. The prison manager who, by this point, I had come to know as Sheikh Kawa, stood in the background. Prompting the Canadian now and then, Kawa held his chin in hand. He nodded. He listened carefully. At the time, Kawa’s control over me was such that he didn’t need to threaten me to get me to reply as he wished me to reply. He had tortured me. I knew well enough what he wanted me to say.

As the camera rolled, I confessed to being a veteran CIA agent, to having suborned more Muslims into spying for the CIA than I could recall, and to having done it all out of hatred for Islam.

When I was done, I took off the orange jumpsuit Kawa had brought for the occasion. The cameraman escorted me back to the cell in silence.

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