Mohamedou Ould Slahi about the Mauritanian (Guantánamo Diary) at Crossing Border - 6 November 2021

Interviewer: Remco van Rijn
Crossing Border festival, The Hague, 6 November 2021
Mohamedou Ould Slahi's book The Mauritanian tells the extraordinary story of an innocent man subjected to unimaginable horrors: an account as inspiring as it is enraging.
About The Mauritanian
Previously published as Guantánamo Diary, this momentous account and international bestseller is soon to be a major motion picture. The first and only diary written by a Guantánamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previously censored material restored. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay in 2002. There he suffered the worst of what the prison had to offer, including months of sensory deprivation, torture, and sexual assault. In 2010, a federal judge ordered him immediately released, but the government appealed that decision. In October 2016 he was released without charge, and repatriated to his native country of Mauritania.

[@santadeville242]

Looking and listening to this man, and reflecting on his story, that hell he has gone through leaves every decent, humble man without a single word.. One of the saddest stories I have ever heard that had happened to an individual. His story is a proof that even "the greatest democracy" of this planet can become a fascist swamp in a split second . Hats off to the US self-criticism that has been happening through books, movies and plays only unfortunately , but the core, the main essence is still there: that country whose only population was living in tents and riding horses while my country had universities, parliament, libraries, scientific institutions etc. has been, still is and will stay a fortress of fear and paranoia. Until the large part of the US population (as we could see the last year, at least 50% of them) don't go through a massive the cathartic moment of enlightenment, we will keep watching and listening stories like this one.

[@Larrypint]

Well he is lying. Greetings from Germany. In 1999 the jihadists Binalshibh, Shehhi und Ziad Jarrah slept in Slahis Appartement in Duisburg. Mohamedou Ould Slahi told them about the training camps for mudjahedds in Afghanistan and gave them the contacts. Jarrah and Mohammed Atta left Hamburg in November 1999 together and traveled to Karatschi Pakistan and later to these camps.

[@user-kq8uv1ll6c]

@@Larrypint Slahi is innocent and has nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks

[@aludar]

I wish that man so much luck and love, he deserves it. And I hope that one day the United States will apologize him.

[@user-kq8uv1ll6c]

I advise everyone to read this man's book "The Guantanamo Diaries" so that you know the truth about your countries that claim democracy and are far from democracy

[@tarikhok2887]

This is a real human story ❤

[@GM-yq5wk]

Great bloke so shocked at his story

[@godaiftv8319]

❤️❤️❤️

[@N.Z78]

Now i have even lower options with America ! Unbelievable story.

[@Larrypint]

Did he mentation that his cousin was AL Qaida member Abu Hafs al-Mauritania ? Did he mention that he was in 2 training camps AL farouq and gardez in Afghanistan in the early 90s? Did he mention that Ramzi Binalshibh and other terrorists slept in his Appartement in Duisburg in 1999 ? Did he mention that he had email contact with jihadist Christian Ganczarski? Did he mentioned that his German visa wasn't extended cause he was found guilty of social fraud and for using different alias names in documents in 1999?

[@FatimaZahra-nh1me]

And who gave you this information that you jump on cue and somehow attempt to justify his detention or make his innocence sound fishy?

[@PlatnamMogo]

Guantanamo Diary became an international best-seller, and now has been adapted into the film The Mauritanian. Mr Mohamedou Salahi is now living back in Mauritania, is married to an American lawyer and is a certified life coach.

[@gabikassen270]

@@FatimaZahra-nh1me its actually true. He pled leagence to al qaida in 1990.

[@theplanet9867]

​@@gabikassen270 But at that time al quida was supported by the United States of America to fight the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan.

[@ntatemohlomi2884]

Hi Larrypint, I see you are following every KZbin posting about him highlighting your points. Indeed he did not perhaps quite put it the way you do. *He only mentioned that the leader of the free world kidnapped him. *Also he mentioned that the greatest democracy on earth held him in detention without trial for 14 years. *Oh he also said the great champion of human rights tortured him. And I note neither you nor America has denied any of these charges? Lastly if any of your charges were true, or a crime, he only asks why you did not bring him before a court of law and charge him?