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posted by n1 on Sunday July 24 2016, @06:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the guantanamo-bay-tourist-board dept.

After 14 long years languishing at Guantánamo without charge or trial, Mohamedou Slahi has finally been cleared for release.

Slahi was born in Mauritania in 1970 and won a scholarship to attend college in Germany. In the early 1990s, he fought with al-Qaeda when it was part of the Afghan anti-communist resistance supported by the U.S. The federal district court judge who reviewed all the evidence in Slahi's habeas corpus case noted that the group then was very different from the one that later came into existence.

Slahi worked in Germany for several years as an engineer and returned to Mauritania in 2000.

Slahi turned himself in to Mauritanian authorities for questioning about the Millennium Plot on November 20, 2001. He was detained for seven days and questioned by Mauritanian officers and by agents of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).[5] The CIA rendered him to a Jordanian prison, where he was held for eight months. Slahi states that he was tortured by the Jordanians. After being flown to Afghanistan and held for two weeks, he was transferred to military custody and the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba on August 4, 2002.[6]

Slahi was subjected to isolation, temperature extremes, beatings and sexual humiliation at Guantánamo. In one documented incident, he was blindfolded and taken out to sea in a boat for a mock execution.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/mohamedou-ould-slahis-long-nightmare-guantanamo-finally-coming-end

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamedou_Ould_Slahi


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  • (Score: 2) by Hartree on Sunday July 24 2016, @08:57PM

    by Hartree (195) on Sunday July 24 2016, @08:57PM (#379503)

    "you posturing weenies"

    Gee... You couldn't possibly be posturing with that post, could you? :)

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:26PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:26PM (#379519) Journal

    No, my thing is pointing it out when other people do. I live by the phrase "give your opponent enough rope to hang himself with." Really, it's like aikido; I just have to wait for whoever it is to build up a head of steam, then use their own momentum against them.

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