Frakt, David - short clip - JawadsConfession
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| - | Jawad's case is very instructive because, as I said, | 0:03 |
| he was accused of throwing this hand grenade. | 0:07 | |
| He was arrested. | 0:08 | |
| The Afghan, | 0:11 | |
| the American's military in Kabul, | 0:12 | |
| went to the Afghans, they said, | 0:16 | |
| we want, whoever is responsible for that attack. | 0:17 | |
| We want them. Turn them over. | 0:20 | |
| You know, our people were injured. We're angry. | 0:21 | |
| That's a terrorist, we wanna know. | 0:23 | |
| We wanna interrogate them. | 0:25 | |
| Now, several people were arrested | 0:27 | |
| after this hand grenade attack. | 0:30 | |
| But the Afghans told the Americans, | 0:34 | |
| oh we've got the guy responsible. | 0:37 | |
| He's confessed. Here he is. | 0:38 | |
| And they gave them Mohamed Jawad. | 0:40 | |
| There were, the next day, | 0:43 | |
| the Afghan interior minister held a press conference | 0:45 | |
| and said we captured three foreign nationals | 0:48 | |
| who are responsible for that. | 0:51 | |
| Three adults. They've all confessed. | 0:53 | |
| The Americans didn't follow up. | 0:56 | |
| They thought they had their guy. | 0:57 | |
| It was this teenage kid and that was the end of it. | 0:58 | |
| As the pre-trial litigation was progressing. | 1:01 | |
| And we were approaching having a suppression hearing. | 1:05 | |
| I asked my Pashto interpreter | 1:10 | |
| if he would review this handwritten confession | 1:13 | |
| and we were given a translation of and I said | 1:15 | |
| can you look at this and make sure | 1:17 | |
| that the translation is accurate? | 1:18 | |
| And he said, okay. | 1:21 | |
| And he looks at, he said, well, I can't do it. | 1:24 | |
| I said, well, why not? | 1:25 | |
| He said, this is not written in Pashto. | 1:27 | |
| This is written in Farsi. | 1:29 | |
| Now my client Mohammed was illiterate. | 1:32 | |
| He couldn't read, he couldn't write. | 1:36 | |
| And he didn't speak Farsi or Dari. | 1:40 | |
| Their defunct Afghan dialect. | 1:42 | |
| So this confession, what I knew was not written by him | 1:46 | |
| but now I find it was written in another language? | 1:51 | |
| And I, you know, | 1:54 | |
| I go to the prosecutor, this is your evidence? | 1:56 | |
| And as Jawad explained it, he said | 1:59 | |
| he was told, we have, here's your release paperwork | 2:01 | |
| put your thumb print here. | 2:05 | |
| Because he couldn't sign his name. | 2:07 | |
| So he put his thumb print on it. | 2:09 | |
| That was his, turned out that he was thumb printing | 2:10 | |
| the confession that they had written for him. | 2:12 |
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