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	(speaking in foreign language)	0:00
Translator	The tragedy is that first I had a toothache	0:07
	and they left me with this pain for one month and a half.	0:10
	The interrogator had made that decision	0:13
	and afterwards a corpsman comes to my cell.	0:16
	He saw my teeth and he said that it was catastrophic.	0:18
	Now that had reached an extreme point	0:22
	because it was a very, very dangerous case.	0:24
	And so the interrogator was forced to give the order	0:27
	that I be taken to the doctors.	0:30
	And see how it happened, I went to the doctor,	0:32
	the dentist, he didn't talk with me,	0:34
	not a word, and I wait for him to speak.	0:36
	For instance, do you pull the tooth off or do you fix it?	0:40
	And I think, now I wait for him to ask the question,	0:44
	and he didn't speak to me, not a word.	0:48
	He took his pliers like this, and I say, what is he doing?	0:50
	And I think that maybe he won't pull.	0:54
	And I hope that he won't pull	0:57
	because my tooth isn't really very broken.	0:58
	You could.	1:00
	And that's what I thinking.	1:01
	He gave me a few shots like this, and right away he pulled.	1:03
	But I said, what's the meaning of all that?	1:07
	He said, that's it.	1:09
	And I said, you need to fix it.	1:10
	It isn't.	1:12
	He said, no, you're not at the Sheraton here.	1:13
	You're in prison and that is all we have.	1:16
	We pull your tooth off or you stay the way you are.	1:18
	He threw it in the garbage can like that.	1:21
	He told the guard, take him back to his cell.	1:24
	That's how it was.	1:26

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Title:

Lahmar, Saber - short clip - NottheSheraton

Date:

August 5, 2010

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Lahmar, Saber

Role:

Detainee

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Detainee Number US4AG-010002DP
Saber Lahmar, male, age 41, Algerian, was detained in Guantanamo from January 20, 2002 until November 30, 2009, when he won his Habeas Corpus petition and was released to France.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

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Format:

oral histories

Language:

French

Extent:

2:46:28

Digital Collection:

Witness to Guantanamo

Source Collection:

Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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