His book is in Bookshare. I read it when it came out. I'm so glad that he
will finally be released!
Miriam
Ackerman writes: "One of the most tortured men in the history of Guantánamo
Bay has received clearance from the wartime prison's quasi-parole board to
leave after nearly 14 years of detention without charge."
Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantanamo Diary was a bestseller. (photo: Guardian
UK)
Guantánamo Detainee Who Wrote a Book About His Torture to be Released
By Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
21 July 16
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, whose book detailed his treatment by the US military,
was found to have no continuing significant threat to US security
One of the most tortured men in the history of Guantánamo Bay has received
clearance from the wartime prisons quasi-parole board to leave after nearly
14 years of detention without charge.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian citizen whose harrowing account of his
torture at Guantánamo Bay became an international bestseller in 2015, will
soon leave behind the Cuban detention center where US military personnel
contorted his body; bombarded him with noise; deprived him of sleep; stuffed
his clothing with ice during a nighttime boat ride meant to to convince him
he was headed to an even worse place; threatened his life; and threatened
his mother with rape.
The periodic review board, a nonlegal panel representing various US security
agencies tasked with assessing threats posed by Guantánamos 76 residual
detainees, found Slahi to represent no continuing significant threat to the
security of the United States. The consensus decision, reached on 14 July,
was made public on Wednesday.
Slahi has maintained that position throughout his ordeal. Although he once
fought alongside al-Qaida against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the early
1990s, he wrote in his book Guantanamo Diary of renouncing the terror group
in 1992. A federal judge in 2010 ordered him freed for lack of evidence
untainted by torture to justify his detention, yet the US justice department
appealed. He is considered so docile inside Guantánamo he is permitted to
garden.
In making this determination, the board considered the detainees highly
compliant behavior in detention. The board also noted the detainees candid
responses to [the] boards questions, to include recognition of his past
activities, clear indications of a change in the detainees mindset, the
panel found.
It is not clear when Slahi will actually get to leave Guantánamo. His
lawyers do not yet know whether he will return to Mauritania or resettle in
a different country, and a destination is a prerequisite for the US military
to place Slahi on a plane off the base in south-eastern Cuba.
Myles Caggins, a detentions spokesman at the White House national security
council, said that no decision has been made regarding the location to
which Mr Slahi will be transferred.
Slahis lead attorney, Nancy Hollander, said she learned of her clients
imminent release in the Dallas airport. Emailing from an airplane, Hollander
said she grew emotional at the news.
I cannot stop crying every time I write it as I notify the many, many
people who have supported Mohamedou through the years. I now hope for a
speedy release so I can meet him next in his new home, surrounded by his
family, Hollander said.
In a 2 June hearing before the quasi-parole panel, Slahis representatives
told the board that he bore no grudge against the US, despite all the US
government has done to him and referred to the unlikely but meaningful
relationships he developed with some of his Guantánamo guards.
Slahis brother Yahdih, a computer engineer who lives in Germany, has
offered to support him financially while his representatives told the panel
he works on his plans to pursue a small business and write books.
In the summer of 2003, senior Guantánamo officials, believing Slahi was an
important link to al-Qaida, sought and received permission from the Pentagon
to torture him.
The torture plan, overseen by a Chicago police detective and navy reservist,
called for stress positions, sleep deprivation, sensory bombardment and
more. A masked interrogator told Slahi he dreamed of killing him. At one
point, the detective, concocting a false identity as a White House aide,
told Slahi that were he not to cooperate, the US would arrest Slahis mother
and transfer her to the all-male prison environment at Guantánamo.
US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld personally approved Slahis torture on
13 August 2003.
Mark Fallon, the deputy commander of the now-defunct criminal investigative
task force at Guantánamo, called it a shameful chapter for the Department
of Defense and those who served in uniform.
It was a command-sanctioned torture of a prisoner in custody. It was
unwarranted, unnecessary, and obviously totally ineffective, he said.
In his book, Slahi recalled being so broken by the torture that he would
tell his tormentors whatever they wished to hear. I dont care, as long as
you are pleased. So if you want to buy, I am selling, Slahi informed his
interrogators.
Guantánamo officials would later move him into housing reserved for
detainees cooperating with US interrogators, where he was permitted to watch
TV and maintain a modest garden. There, he would write his memoirs, which he
provided to his attorneys and ultimately published to international acclaim.
Slahis torture left us with a detainee [who] continued to be held for
years, not based on what he did to us, said Fallon, but based on what we
did to him.
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Guantánamo Detainee Who Wrote a Book About His Torture to be Released
By Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK
21 July 16
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, whose book detailed his treatment by the US military,
was found to have no continuing significant threat to US security
ne of the most tortured men in the history of Guantánamo Bay has received
clearance from the wartime prisons quasi-parole board to leave after nearly
14 years of detention without charge.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian citizen whose harrowing account of his
torture at Guantánamo Bay became an international bestseller in 2015, will
soon leave behind the Cuban detention center where US military personnel
contorted his body; bombarded him with noise; deprived him of sleep; stuffed
his clothing with ice during a nighttime boat ride meant to to convince him
he was headed to an even worse place; threatened his life; and threatened
his mother with rape.
The periodic review board, a nonlegal panel representing various US security
agencies tasked with assessing threats posed by Guantánamos 76 residual
detainees, found Slahi to represent no continuing significant threat to the
security of the United States. The consensus decision, reached on 14 July,
was made public on Wednesday.
Slahi has maintained that position throughout his ordeal. Although he once
fought alongside al-Qaida against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the early
1990s, he wrote in his book Guantanamo Diary of renouncing the terror group
in 1992. A federal judge in 2010 ordered him freed for lack of evidence
untainted by torture to justify his detention, yet the US justice department
appealed. He is considered so docile inside Guantánamo he is permitted to
garden.
In making this determination, the board considered the detainees highly
compliant behavior in detention. The board also noted the detainees candid
responses to [the] boards questions, to include recognition of his past
activities, clear indications of a change in the detainees mindset, the
panel found.
It is not clear when Slahi will actually get to leave Guantánamo. His
lawyers do not yet know whether he will return to Mauritania or resettle in
a different country, and a destination is a prerequisite for the US military
to place Slahi on a plane off the base in south-eastern Cuba.
Myles Caggins, a detentions spokesman at the White House national security
council, said that no decision has been made regarding the location to
which Mr Slahi will be transferred.
Slahis lead attorney, Nancy Hollander, said she learned of her clients
imminent release in the Dallas airport. Emailing from an airplane, Hollander
said she grew emotional at the news.
I cannot stop crying every time I write it as I notify the many, many
people who have supported Mohamedou through the years. I now hope for a
speedy release so I can meet him next in his new home, surrounded by his
family, Hollander said.
In a 2 June hearing before the quasi-parole panel, Slahis representatives
told the board that he bore no grudge against the US, despite all the US
government has done to him and referred to the unlikely but meaningful
relationships he developed with some of his Guantánamo guards.
Slahis brother Yahdih, a computer engineer who lives in Germany, has
offered to support him financially while his representatives told the panel
he works on his plans to pursue a small business and write books.
In the summer of 2003, senior Guantánamo officials, believing Slahi was an
important link to al-Qaida, sought and received permission from the Pentagon
to torture him.
The torture plan, overseen by a Chicago police detective and navy reservist,
called for stress positions, sleep deprivation, sensory bombardment and
more. A masked interrogator told Slahi he dreamed of killing him. At one
point, the detective, concocting a false identity as a White House aide,
told Slahi that were he not to cooperate, the US would arrest Slahis mother
and transfer her to the all-male prison environment at Guantánamo.
US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld personally approved Slahis torture on
13 August 2003.
Mark Fallon, the deputy commander of the now-defunct criminal investigative
task force at Guantánamo, called it a shameful chapter for the Department
of Defense and those who served in uniform.
It was a command-sanctioned torture of a prisoner in custody. It was
unwarranted, unnecessary, and obviously totally ineffective, he said.
In his book, Slahi recalled being so broken by the torture that he would
tell his tormentors whatever they wished to hear. I dont care, as long as
you are pleased. So if you want to buy, I am selling, Slahi informed his
interrogators.
Guantánamo officials would later move him into housing reserved for
detainees cooperating with US interrogators, where he was permitted to watch
TV and maintain a modest garden. There, he would write his memoirs, which he
provided to his attorneys and ultimately published to international acclaim.
Slahis torture left us with a detainee [who] continued to be held for
years, not based on what he did to us, said Fallon, but based on what we
did to him.
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