By Mohamedou Ould Slahi
An unheard of overseas publishing occasion: the 1st and purely diary written by way of a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee.
Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned on the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In some of these years, the U.S. hasn't ever charged him with a criminal offense. A federal pass judgement on ordered his unencumber in March 2010, however the U.S. executive fought that call, and there's no signal that the us plans to permit him go.
Three years into his captivity Slahi begun a diary, recounting his lifestyles ahead of he disappeared into U.S. custody, "his never-ending global journey" of imprisonment and interrogation, and his everyday life as a Guantánamo prisoner. His diary isn't really only a brilliant checklist of a miscarriage of justice, yet a deeply own memoir---terrifying, darkly funny, and strangely gracious. released now for the 1st time, GUANTÁNAMO DIARY is a record of huge historic significance and a riveting and profoundly revealing learn.
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The CIA would have known this. The agency would also have known if the Jordanians had uncovered anything linking Mohamedou to the Millennium Plot, the September 11 attacks, or any other terrorist plots. But the CIA apparently never provided any information from his interrogation in Amman to Guantánamo prosecutors. In a 2012 interview with the Rule of Law Oral History Project at Columbia University, Lt. Col. Stuart Couch, the Marine prosecutor assigned to build a case against Mohamedou in Guantánamo, said that the CIA showed him no intelligence reports of its own, and most of the reports the agency did share with him came from Mohamedou’s Guantánamo interrogation.
A: Nothing whatsoever. Q: Ever recruited for them? A: No, not at all; no trying to recruit for them. Q: You said that you were pressured to admit you were involved in the Millennium plot, right? A: Yes. Q: To whom did you make that confession? A: To the Americans. Q: And what do you mean by pressure? A: Your honor, I don’t wish to talk about this nature of the pressure if I don’t have to. Q: Tribunal President: You don’t have to; we just want to make sure that you were not tortured or coerced into saying something that wasn’t true.
Supreme Court rules 5–4 in Boumediene v. Bush that Guantánamo detainees have a right to challenge their detention through habeas corpus. S. District Court Judge James Robertson hears Mohamedou’s habeas corpus petition. March 22, 2010 Judge Robertson grants Mohamedou’s habeas corpus petition and orders his release. March 26, 2010 The Obama administration files a notice of appeal. S. district court for rehearing. That case is still pending. Present Mohamedou remains in Guantánamo, in the same cell where many of the events recounted in this book took place.