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Guantnamo detainee who wrote a book about his torture to be released
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: July 24th, 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/20/mohamedou-ou...
One of the most tortured men in the history of Guantnamo 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 Guantnamo 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. A nonlegal panel representing various US security agencies tasked with assessing threats posed by Guantnamos 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. A federal judge in 2010 [had previously] ordered him freed for lack of evidence untainted by torture to justify his detention, yet the US justice department appealed. In the summer of 2003, senior Guantnamo officials, believing Slahi was an important link to al-Qaida, sought and received permission from the Pentagon to torture him. US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld personally approved Slahis torture. In his book, Slahi recalled ... that he would tell his tormentors whatever they wished to hear. I dont care, as long as you are pleased, Slahi informed his interrogators.
Note: By the time Slahi's bestselling book Guantanamo Diary was published, leaked documents obtained by BBC News had revealed that more than 150 innocent people were detained at Guantanamo after being rounded up for no reason. For more along these lines, read about how the torture program fits in with a long history of human experimentation by corrupt intelligence agencies working alongside unethical scientists.
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