Gorman, Candace - short clip - Al-GhizzawiPreparesForDeath
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| - | And I went to see him, and he looked awful. | 0:00 |
| This was the time when I was really sure | 0:05 | |
| he was not gonna make it that... | 0:07 | |
| A series of meetings. | 0:10 | |
| I was going to see him every six or eight weeks, | 0:11 | |
| because I was so concerned about his health | 0:13 | |
| and wanted to at least monitor it. | 0:16 | |
| And I'd file stuff with the courts, | 0:18 | |
| even though I was ignored, | 0:19 | |
| but he was like bent over and he was hacking, | 0:22 | |
| and he was just miserable looking. | 0:25 | |
| But he told me that he had two things for me. | 0:28 | |
| He had written his last Will and Testament, | 0:35 | |
| and he wanted me to make sure that | 0:38 | |
| I got it to his wife and daughter. | 0:42 | |
| And that I would guarantee that when he died | 0:45 | |
| I would have his body tested so that I would | 0:49 | |
| know what killed him so that his wife and daughter, | 0:53 | |
| if it's anything that they might have | 0:56 | |
| they could be protected. | 0:58 | |
| And I remember thinking, | 1:00 | |
| there's no way on earth | 1:03 | |
| I would ever be able to get that, | 1:04 | |
| but I didn't tell him that because no point. | 1:05 | |
| I just said I would do my very best. | 1:08 | |
| And then he had a six-page | 1:12 | |
| description of all the torture that he had been subjected to | 1:19 | |
| from the time he was picked up. | 1:23 | |
| And he wanted me to initial each page | 1:26 | |
| so that when he turned it over to the guards | 1:29 | |
| to mail it to me I would know | 1:32 | |
| that I got the same pages that he had mailed. | 1:33 | |
| And then he read it to me | 1:38 | |
| (coughing) | 1:41 | |
| so that I could put it in my notes. | 1:43 | |
| And so we spent a long time, two days, | 1:47 | |
| going over all of this. | 1:52 | |
| It was a very emotional meeting. | 1:54 | |
| He took out, for the first time | 1:59 | |
| he took out a pictures of his daughter to show me | 2:00 | |
| that he had received pictures from his wife. | 2:03 | |
| There was no contact for a couple years, | 2:05 | |
| but then about every six months he would get something. | 2:07 | |
| So he had a couple of pictures of her, | 2:10 | |
| and he was showing me the pictures, | 2:12 | |
| and she was just this beautiful little girl. | 2:13 | |
| And he told me that he had ripped up all the other pictures | 2:16 | |
| because it was too hard to watch her growing up | 2:20 | |
| and to not be a part of it. | 2:23 |
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