Savage, Charlie - short clip - TheCripplingFearofAnExDetainee
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- | One Yemeni named Ahmed Khatir went to Estonia | 0:03 |
a couple of years ago when they finally started | 0:07 | |
resettling Yemenis rather than kind of give up on Yemen. | 0:10 | |
Stabilizing enough that they could repatriate him | 0:14 | |
and he's agreed to let me come visit him. | 0:15 | |
And so I went and I spent sort of a week in Estonia. | 0:19 | |
I talked to him several days, it's all day with him | 0:23 | |
and his apartment or riding the bus around town. | 0:25 | |
Speaking to his friends, | 0:28 | |
went to the mosque with him where he prays sort | 0:29 | |
of a very small mosque in Tallinn. | 0:32 | |
And sort of getting a sense of his life | 0:34 | |
and he's very glad to be out, but also at the struggles | 0:36 | |
He's in this strange place where he doesn't, | 0:39 | |
he's trying to learn the language | 0:42 | |
but doesn't speak it well enough yet. | 0:44 | |
Although they do speak English there | 0:46 | |
and he speaks English that helps. | 0:47 | |
That actually may be a crutch for him. | 0:48 | |
Very small Muslim community, | 0:50 | |
so hard to get halal food. | 0:52 | |
And he's sort of misses his family | 0:55 | |
and hasn't been able to reunite with them and so forth. | 0:57 | |
Larger than that, his sort of crippling fear | 1:01 | |
as he described it, that he will be blamed | 1:05 | |
if a bomb goes off somewhere and they don't know who did it. | 1:08 | |
"Oh that ex-GTMO guide, he must've done it", | 1:11 | |
but his mind at least he was falsely blamed even | 1:13 | |
for being involved in Al-Qaeda because he was | 1:16 | |
in the wrong place at the wrong time. | 1:18 | |
And he's just sort of has trouble leaving | 1:21 | |
his apartment sometimes because he's just like, | 1:25 | |
what if something goes off. | 1:27 | |
And he gradually got used to going around Estonia | 1:28 | |
but would not, has not traveled to other countries | 1:30 | |
in the EU, even though he's allowed to. | 1:33 | |
At least on paper cause it's the Schengen zone, | 1:36 | |
even though he, you know, he lost his twenties | 1:40 | |
and would kind of like to see the world. | 1:42 | |
But what if some bomb goes, he likes the fact | 1:44 | |
that he thinks he's under surveillance in Estonia, | 1:46 | |
because I mean, they'll know if something goes off, | 1:48 | |
that he was just, you know, | 1:51 | |
having cereal in his apartment when that happened. | 1:53 |
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