Idir, Mustafa Ait - short clip - erf

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-	They came to us, they told us in that block,	0:00
	the people who are in here, they can't have the pants.	0:02
	You will be in shorts.	0:05
	They said to me,	0:07
	it was one of the Arabian interpreters there.	0:09
	It was an Arab, I think from Iraq or something like that,	0:11
	his accent is from Iraq.	0:15
	I told him, "I'm not going to give you my pants	0:17
	because I have to pray."	0:19
	You know, I have to pray with my pants.	0:21
	He said me, "You have to give me your pants.	0:23
	Or, I will send the IRF team, which are six	0:26
	to take it from you in force."	0:31
	I told him I get mad, you know?	0:34
	He was talking with me as kind of a, you know,	0:36
	disrespecting completely.	0:38
	I told him, "I'm not going to give it to you.	0:40
	And let those six guards to come,	0:42
	and I want you to be with them, please. You come with them."	0:44
	So, I took off that pants and had shorts,	0:48
	and I ripped it completely it.	0:51
	I ripped it. And I put it in the corner.	0:52
	He told me, "Okay, you ripped that pants, give it to us."	0:55
	I told him, "I'm not going to,	0:57
	let your guards to come in here."	0:59
	So they can use the spray,	1:01
	I fight with them, you know, use that spray.	1:03
	Used three times, they can first kick first group.	1:06
	I fight with them,	1:09
	and they get out second group three times.	1:10
	So until one, I fall down, I can't see anymore.	1:12
	You know, with the spray, they used it.	1:14
	And they get inside, they bring my finger that, see?	1:17
	So until now, I can't move it, I can't put it back, see?	1:21
	That bone, the bone, it get up right here.	1:25
	You bring that finger, and they bring them also the,	1:28
	they broke that one also.	1:32
	And they move me from my cell.	1:34
	They put me in the gravel outside.	1:35
	They put with the handcuffs.	1:39
	Isn't have those, it's the plastic one.	1:40
	My face in the gravel here.	1:42
	And they hold me.	1:44
	One of the guards, he jump with his knee on that side.	1:45
	Was standing and he jumped, his knee.	1:49
	So after that, maybe one day, two day, I get the shock.	1:51
	That side, the left side, it gets paralyzed.	1:54
	It gets paralyzed.	1:57
	So before, when he jumps, they take the house,	1:58
	and he put, the hose, sorry.	2:02
Interviewer	The hose.	2:04
-	Yeah.
	And he put it in my mouth.	2:05
	He turned the water, and big hose like that,	2:06
	he put it into my mouth, I can't breathe.	2:08
Interviewer	This is when?	2:10
	Right after you were paralyzed?	2:11
-	No, before, when they move me from my cell to outside.	2:13
Interviewer	Then they put the water	2:16
	in you?	2:17
-	Yeah.
	And they too, and when they use before,	2:18
	when it was in my cell, when it was the spray.	2:19
	The spray, if you touch it, if the water comes on it,	2:21
	your body all getting kind of,	2:25
	it's this kind of infection, something like that,	2:28
	you know, you're getting all red.	2:31
	So, they take that hose, and use it to water in my body.	2:32
	It's not in the linen that they have	2:37
	because I had short, only short, and the top.	2:40
	I didn't give them top.	2:43
	I take the pants on, off, and I had the short.	2:44
	And they use that hose,	2:49
	so, after that he put it in my mouth.	2:50
	I can't breathe. I stop breathing.	2:52
	So, then they take it off, they put it something,	2:54
	in middle, between my mouth and nose, my mouth and nose,	2:58
	like that.	3:01
	So, when I get breathing, the water get in my nose,	3:03
	it was really hard.	3:07
	So, then they put my face on the ground.	3:10
	One of the guard, he jumps on his knee.	3:12
	When he jumps, I get the shock in the left side.	3:15
	Well I get that for 10 days, 10 days.	3:18
	No one. I talk with the doctors.	3:22
	I talk, the corpsman, the doctor,	3:24
	the nurse who bring the medical.	3:27
	I talk with them.	3:28
	He was kind of playing game with me now.	3:29
	I talk with him.	3:33
	I told him, can you see when I drink, leaks.	3:34
	When I blink my eye, that one, the right one,	3:38
	the left one, even now, up to now,	3:41
	one is sitting like that sometimes.	3:43
	Some alone, you know?	3:44
	When I touch up to, you know, when I touch like that,	3:48
	it's completely different.	3:50
	It's not that much, but it's different now.	3:52
	Between the right and left side.	3:54
	The all the left side was shock.	3:56
Interviewer	Did the doctors do anything for you	4:00
	during those nine days?	4:02
-	The doctor after 10 days, the doctor,	4:03
	they move me to the medical.	4:05
	So the doctor come to me, and he called some	4:07
	young man like that, I think they are U.S. students,	4:11
	something like that, you know.	4:14
	Maybe 19, 18, 19 years old.	4:16
	And he was explaining to them, what is that sickness.	4:19
	He said, I remember that he told them that sickness,	4:23
	it kind of relying on nerves,	4:26
	which is cut here into his brain, you know?	4:29
	And so that side, it can't work like that.	4:32
	When he get done with them,	4:35
	He said, "Look, we'll give you some medicines	4:36
	that helps you to come back."	4:38

Item Info

Title:

Idir, Mustafa Ait - short clip - erf

Date:

August 7, 2009

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Idir, Mustafa Ait

Role:

Detainee

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Detainee Number US4AG-010004DP
Mustafa Ait Idir, male, age 39, a citizen of Algeria and Bosnia and Herzegovina, was detained in Guantanamo from January 20, 2002 until December 16, 2008 when he was released to Bosnia and Herzegovina after a federal judge ruled that he was not being lawfully held.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

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Format:

oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

1:34:31

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