Guantánamo officials faked letter from inmate’s mother who could not write

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Guantánamo officials faked letter from inmate’s mother who could not write
Ploy was intended to persuade inmate to cooperate, brother tells event marking publication of memoir Guantánamo Diary

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Guantánamo prison camp authorities tried to trick inmate Mohamedou Ould Slahi by forging a letter purportedly from his mother whom he had been unable to see for years, his brother Yahdih has said.

The ploy, which was intended to persuade him to cooperate with his interrogators, failed not only because they misspelt Slahi’s name but also because his mother could not write.

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The 44-year-old engineer was first detained in 2001 in Mauritania at the request of the US government, then rendered to Jordan and Afghanistan and tortured, and then flown to Guantánamo.

He is one of two inmates whose “additional interrogation techniques” were personally approved by Donald Rumsfeld, then US defence secretary, according to a US Senate inquiry. Slahi was dressed in a burqa, deprived of sleep, subjected to strobe lights, doused in water, threatened with dogs, sexually assaulted by female interrogators and forced to bark and perform dog tricks.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/21/-sp-guantanamo-diary-forged-letter-mother

[DetlefK]

1. Torture. As american as apple-pie.

[Fred Sanders]

2. A lawless slave camp on occupied foreign territory where due process is suspended....USA! USA!

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[frylock]

3. Sincerely, Epstein's Mother