Rasul, Shafiq - short clip - English

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-	Do you think that because you spoke English	0:00
	you had an advantage.	0:02
-	Yeah, we did have an advantage because we spoke English	0:04
	but it was a very small	0:08
-	What advantage?	0:09
-	We could communicate with the soldiers.	0:10
	There was a very small minority	0:14
	of them that would sympathize with what was happening.	0:15
	There was one guy the very first that actually he was	0:19
	in camp x-ray and he said to me	0:25
	what's happening to you is bad.	0:29
	What happened in America is bad as well.	0:31
	But two wrongs don't make a right.	0:34
	And there's nothing that I can do to help you.	0:37
	Yeah. But just to let you know that there's some	0:40
	people that sympathize what's happening to you.	0:44
	And there was one guy in camp Delta, he said	0:46
	to me that I'm really sorry for what's happening to you.	0:48
	But there's nothing I can do.	0:53
	If I do anything, I'll end up in the cell next to you.	0:55
	But I apologize for what my country has done to you	0:58
	but I'm a soldier here and I have to follow rules.	1:01
-	So some of the guards were nice to you.	1:04
-	Those people that you, when you were on the F team	1:07
	you didn't have a choice to go on there.	1:11
	And every time that someone got hurt, it was filmed.	1:15
	So I think they were made to be aggressive if they weren't	1:19
	they'd probably get punished for them.	1:23
	And there's some people that were on the F team after that.	1:25
	If someone they'd come back and they apologize to them	1:28

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Title:

Rasul, Shafiq - short clip - English

Date:

August 16, 2009

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Rasul, Shafiq

Role:

Detainee

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Detainee Number US9UK-00086DP
Shafiq Rasul, male, age 32, British, was detained in Guantanamo from February 5, 2002 until March 9, 2004, when he was returned to Britain.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

Subject:

United Kingdom

Format:

oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

1:38:14

Digital Collection:

Witness to Guantanamo

Source Collection:

Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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