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'''Laid Saidi''' is an [[Algeria]]n who has claimed that he was imprisoned, for several years, in a [[CIA]] [[black site]] in [[Afghanistan]] called [[ |
'''Laid Saidi''' is an [[Algeria]]n who has claimed that he was imprisoned, for several years, in a [[CIA]] [[black site]] in [[Afghanistan]] called "[[the salt pit]]". |
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He was apprehended apparently because of a taped telephone conversation in which the word ''tayrat'', meaning "tires" in colloquial Arabic, was mistaken for a similarly sounding word (with a slightly different "T" sound) meaning "airplanes."<ref name=NyTimes2006-07-07> |
He was apprehended apparently because of a taped telephone conversation in which the word ''tayrat'', meaning "tires" in colloquial Arabic, was mistaken for a similarly sounding word (with a slightly different "T" sound) meaning "airplanes."<ref name=NyTimes2006-07-07> |
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Saidi described months of confusing interrogations, during which his interrogators kept insisting that he had spoken cryptically of planes during a telephone conversation. When the tape the Americans had made of this conversation was finally played for him, Saidi described being surprised to realize all these questions and torture were due to a simple misunderstanding, that could have easily been dealt with, without months of torture. |
Saidi described months of confusing interrogations, during which his interrogators kept insisting that he had spoken cryptically of planes during a telephone conversation. When the tape the Americans had made of this conversation was finally played for him, Saidi described being surprised to realize all these questions and torture were due to a simple misunderstanding, that could have easily been dealt with, without months of torture. |
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Saidi claims to have spent months in |
Saidi claims to have spent months in [[the dark prison]] prior to his detention in the salt pit. |
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Laid Saidi is an Algerian who has claimed that he was imprisoned, for several years, in a CIA black site in Afghanistan called "the salt pit".
He was apprehended apparently because of a taped telephone conversation in which the word tayrat, meaning "tires" in colloquial Arabic, was mistaken for a similarly sounding word (with a slightly different "T" sound) meaning "airplanes."[1]
Saidi was imprisoned near Khalid el-Masri during the five months el-Masri was imprisoned in the salt pit, in a prominent instance of mistaken identity.
Saidi worked for Al-Haramain Foundation, a Saudi charity organization. He was expelled from Tanzania in July 2003, and rendered to Afghanistan.[2]
Saidi said that scars on his wrists were from being suspended from the ceiling by his hands. American officials assert that they stopped using this form of torture after it led to the deaths of two Afghans, Habibullah and Dilawar in Bagram, in December 2002.
Saidi described months of confusing interrogations, during which his interrogators kept insisting that he had spoken cryptically of planes during a telephone conversation. When the tape the Americans had made of this conversation was finally played for him, Saidi described being surprised to realize all these questions and torture were due to a simple misunderstanding, that could have easily been dealt with, without months of torture.
Saidi claims to have spent months in the dark prison prior to his detention in the salt pit.
References
- ^ Craig S. Smith, Souad Mekhennet (2006-07-07). "Algerian Tells of Dark Term in U.S. Hands". New York Times. Archived from the original on 2009-12-19.
- ^ Jerome Taylor (2006-07-09). "CIA sent me to be tortured in Afghan prison, says Algerian". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2009-12-19.
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- Algerian people
- Living people
- Algerian extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
- Prisoners and detainees held in the Salt Pit
- Exonerated terrorism suspects
- People subject to extraordinary rendition by the United States
- Bagram Theater Detention Facility detainees