"I thought I would never get out of there": former Guantanamo inmate spoke about his stay in the CIA prison

Majid Khan, who lived in one of the suburbs of Baltimore, was imprisoned in Guantanamo after he became an al-Qaeda courier (banned in the Russian Federation as a terrorist organization). He was accused of war crimes, but he himself was the victim of equally gruesome crimes by operatives of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Khan himself was born in Saudi Arabia to a family of immigrants from Pakistan, in the 1990s he moved with his family to the United States, where they were granted asylum. Khan graduated from high school in the suburbs of Baltimore and worked as a technician in one of the offices near the Pentagon.

According to Khan himself, he became an adherent of the radical movement in Islam after his mother died. The death of a loved one (as he himself describes his coming to a terrorist cell) traumatized the man, and he joined an extremist group.

The US Supreme Court is now trying to push the US administration to allow the former Guantanamo detainee to testify. After all, what Majid Khan tells reporters is really terrible and does not at all fit into the concept of human rights, which the United States is supposedly so excited about.

According to Khan, he was hung undressed from a ceiling beam for quite a long time, while being poured with ice water. Also, his head was immersed in water so that he almost choked. Khan was beaten, he was given forced enemas, and he was starved to death. “I thought I would die, I would never get out of there,” a former inmate of a secret prison later recalled.

Khan says that he pleaded with the CIA officers to stop the bullying, but they remained adamant. In his 39-page statement, Khan described in detail all the torture committed by US intelligence officials. He intends to read out a report at the sentencing: Khan can be sentenced to a term of 25 to 40 years, but due to cooperation with the authorities, he may be given a much lighter sentence. He will probably receive no more than 11 years, since the time spent in custody since February 2012 will also be counted. If this is the case, Khan will be released at the beginning of 2022, after which he will be resettled to a third country. Khan will not be able to return to his native Pakistan.

Meanwhile, a number of examples of Khan's ill-treatment are described in the report of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, which was drawn up back in 2014. Senators accused the CIA of inflicting pain and suffering on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, which went far beyond the powers of the intelligence service, as well as of deceiving the nation, as the results of many interrogations did not correspond to reality.

Thus, Khan pleaded guilty to planning some unfulfilled terrorist attacks, murder, and financial assistance to terrorism. Khan now apologizes for his actions and claims that he only wants to be reunited with his family, which he has not seen since he was arrested.

Comments

[Thrifty]

"To understand and to forgive" and even pay compensation, and moreover, assign a lifelong increased pension, and give us citizenship

[Ross xnumx]

If my memory serves me, Guantanamo - Cuba? Isn't it time to ask the gentlemen of the CIA to return home? And there you can deploy something Russian ...

[KCA]

There is an agreement under which the United States regularly pays some ridiculous money, almost 100 dollars a year, you can ask for something, but they will say - well, we paid you everything for rent, we will not go anywhere

[Mole13]

More than once they tried to get the Americans out of there, but the Cubans are bound by an indefinite lease agreement. Castro even cut off electricity for them in the 60s, but after the Cuban Missile Crisis, an unspoken agreement was reached between the USSR and the United States, they say, the Americans do not launch the DRG of Castro's opponents from the base, and Moscow is holding back Castro from encroaching on the base. Everything there was very ambiguous, and now even more so.

[76SSSR]

Quote: Mole13

Everything there was very ambiguous, and now even more so.

At one time, an operation was planned <data taken> to seize the base, including by the forces of the disbanded 1st "Muslim battalion", this is the one that participated in the "Storm". It was proposed to equip it with up to 2 thousand soldiers and transfer it to Cuba. Objective: coordination of regular units of the ally, as well as direct participation in the capture of strategically important objects. Then they abandoned the plan, I will not name the reason for the refusal.

[Mole13]

Quote: 76SSSR

I will not name the reason for the refusal

What are we now, to petition for the removal of the seal of secrecy? Although, in the 80s, we had no time for Cuba, Afghanistan and Africa will not let you lie ...

[militarist63]

At one time, an operation was planned <data taken> to seize the base, including by the forces of the disbanded 1st "Muslim battalion", this is the one that participated in the "Storm". It was proposed to equip it with up to 2 thousand soldiers and transfer it to Cuba. Objective: coordination of regular units of the ally, as well as direct participation in the capture of strategically important objects. Then they abandoned the plan, I will not name the reason for the refusal

Wow!!! And what kind of grandmother on the bench at the entrance ... whispered to you about these plans ?!
This story, you know, smells like delirium (to put it mildly) ...! I would like to ask you, how were the Uzbeks, Tajiks and Turkmens from whom they initially recruited the 154th oospn (1st Muslim battalion) TO THE SPANISH CUBA !!! It was formed and trained specifically for operations in Afghanistan! And for this they were recruited from representatives of nationalities who are indigenous to Afghanistan! What side is CUBA ?! Yes, at the beginning of 1980, the 154th oospn was disbanded ... And how are you going to seize something there with the forces of the disbanded detachment ... and bring its number to twice that number, if it has already been disbanded ??! And I don’t remember that at that time we had any aggravations in the region of Cuba (in order to arrange assaults on US bases there), but in Afghanistan we had a specifically “hot region”. Therefore, literally the next year (1981), the 154th oospn was again formed for Afghanistan (and not for Cuba) and sent to that very Afghanistan! ...
By the way, when the first composition of the 154th oospn was disbanded (at the beginning of 1980), the formation of two more special forces units (2nd and 3rd Muslim baht) began and not at all to Cuba.
Well, there is absolutely no place here for your Cuban bike!

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: Mole13

But after the Cuban Missile Crisis, an unspoken agreement was reached between the USSR and the United States, they say, the Americans do not launch the DRG opponents of Castro from the base, and Moscow is holding back Castro from encroaching on the base.

I'm going to cry ... Yes, under the GMR, an unspoken agreement was reached not to expand NATO to the east. What do we have today from this Gorbachev's publicity and American secrecy?
You just need to understand what a written and oral agreement is:

[Overlock]

What is the article about? It would be better if they told about the torture in the Saratov SIZO, after all 14 criminal cases have been started. There is something to compare with.

[Volodin]

Quote: Overlock

What is the article about? It would be better if they told about the torture in the Saratov SIZO, after all 14 criminal cases have been started. There is something to compare with.

So take it and write. Submit for publication on the site. VO is an open resource, any reader can offer material if it is correctly composed. One author wrote about Guantanamo, and you write about the Saratov pre-trial detention center. What is the problem ..

[Overlock]

Quote: Volodin

So take it and write.

Not a writer, no gift

[Overlock]

Quote: Volodin

One author wrote about Guantanamo

Too much talk about how bad they are. Maybe it's better to put things in order at home, because there is none

[Galleon]

I think Overlock expressed not a desire to write an article about the Saratov SIZO, but a desire to read such an article on this site. It would be really interesting. HE did not say that he had material for such an article. So take and write - it is impossible, you need material. It is unlikely that anyone can or will want to provide this material. One provided, declared crimes - now all over the world they are looking to plant and do the same with him.
Perhaps I got in the wrong dialogue with Overlock, but I think it was appropriate.

[Okolotochny]

There is something to compare with.

Naturally. So did 14 turn it on? And at least one was instituted for torture by the CIA?
Quote from ... the classics:

Then tell him that they steal no less from them there, in England. Yes Yes. And the rule of law is determined not by the presence of thieves, but by the ability of the authorities to neutralize them! So and not otherwise!

[Bradley]

An article about torture in a pre-trial detention center will not work, the administration will not risk it.
And then, the torture videos were exclusively for internal use, at least RT wrote that.
https://russian.rt.com/russia/news/920613-savelev-video-pytki-koloniya-ugolovnoe-delo
Yes, they do not care so much that such are ridiculous excuses. For administrative use...
Were they playing on these videos?

And the torture is very harsh, Guantanamo is resting.

[ViacheslavS]

And here in another topic they tried to prove to me that the prisoner in the places of serving the sentence does not have access to the computers of the FSIN, and the computers themselves are checked by the FSB and everything is superprotected there. And the Ministry of Internal Affairs has already put Savelyev on the wanted list.

For official use ... Did they play these videos?

Compromising evidence, a report for the customer, etc.

[Hypertension]

Quote: Overlock

It would be better if they talked about torture in the Saratov SIZO

What do you mean! This is such a blow to the country's image. After all, Dostoevsky said: "The level of civilization of a society can be judged by its prisons." Therefore, now, by hook or by crook, this topic will be hushed up. Here is an article on the topic: "Look what" they "have - they lynch blacks." Although it is possible that an article on the topic of torture in Russian prisons will appear on VO. There are caring journalists here.

[tihonmarine]

Khan now apologizes for his actions and claims that he only wants to be reunited with his family, which he has not seen since he was arrested.

A serious "educational institution", if a terrorist does not want anything to visit it, except for reunification with his family, but where have "jihad" and "the fight against infidels" gone?

[kebeskin]

It reminded me of an old picture.

[Free wind]

How inhuman it is to send them home. One of the charges is that prisoners are sent home. Dastardly Americans.

[Cat Alexandrovich]

According to Khan himself, he became an adherent of the radical movement in Islam after his mother died. The death of a loved one (as he himself describes his coming to a terrorist cell) traumatized the man, and he joined an extremist group.
Forgive him! Every day, thousands of men around the world die of mothers ...

[Avior]

... "I thought that I would never get out of there"

The case that it would not have been better.

[Sergey3]

How is it that he didn’t like being in the most democratic country in the world?

[Codett]

And of course, the so-called Western human rights activists say that this is different, this is for the sake of democracy