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| (pencil scratches) | 0:00 | |
| - | The cell was a converted shipping container. | 0:03 |
| And that's it, being locked in there | 0:08 | |
| for the next two years. | 0:10 | |
| Interviewer | By yourself? | 0:11 |
| - | Alone, yes. | 0:13 |
| Interviewer | How did you manage living | 0:15 |
| in such isolation for, it sounds to me, | 0:16 | |
| what, 18, 20 months? | 0:19 | |
| (sighs) | 0:21 | |
| - | Well, there's no simple answer to that, really. | 0:23 |
| I think my faith played an important role. | 0:27 | |
| It was- | 0:30 | |
| It was severely tested, of course. | 0:33 | |
| Thoughts of what I plan to do when I re- | 0:39 | |
| When, even the word "when"- | 0:43 | |
| If I get released, | 0:44 | |
| I tried to memorize as much of the Quran as possible. | 0:48 | |
| As an Arabic speaker, I tried to | 0:50 | |
| contemplate more on its meanings | 0:52 | |
| than I had ever done before. | 0:54 | |
| I asked for human contact with other people. | 0:56 | |
| They sent me a psychiatrist, | 0:58 | |
| and this was an occasion- | 1:00 | |
| On a couple occasions when I lost my mind, | 1:01 | |
| banged my head against the wall, | 1:08 | |
| kicked and screamed just because of the being | 1:09 | |
| incarcerated for so long | 1:11 | |
| and not knowing when I'm going to get out of this place | 1:12 | |
| and everything building up. | 1:15 | |
| I think it was an anxiety attack, | 1:18 | |
| more than anything else. | 1:20 | |
| And they sent in psychiatrists. | 1:22 | |
| And I remember the first psychiatrist, | 1:25 | |
| not the one that I've mentioned earlier on, | 1:27 | |
| the one who said that | 1:29 | |
| she was very upset about Guantanamo, | 1:31 | |
| but this one in particular came along | 1:33 | |
| and she sat on the opposite side of myself | 1:35 | |
| and she said, "Have you thought about hurting yourself?" | 1:37 | |
| I said, "No. Not in the way that you're suggesting." | 1:40 | |
| And then she said, | 1:47 | |
| "Have you thought about removing your trousers, | 1:48 | |
| threading your trousers with a sheet, | 1:51 | |
| putting the crotch part around your neck | 1:55 | |
| so you can make a strong noose, | 1:56 | |
| and then tying it to the top corner | 1:59 | |
| of your cell and then jumping off to kill- | 2:00 | |
| to commit suicide. | 2:03 | |
| I said, "No, not until you put that thought in my mind." | 2:05 | |
| And I couldn't understand why she told me that. | 2:11 | |
| But what I have learned since that time | 2:13 | |
| is the five people in Guantanamo have died | 2:15 | |
| almost identically from that method. | 2:17 |
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