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IV. Transfer from Guantanamo Bay: The Case of Abdusalam Abdulhadi Omar as-Safrani Abdusalam Abdulhadi Omar as-Safrani (Safrani) 358 is one of two Libyans detained by the United States at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and then returned to Libya by the US. 359 He asked not to be sent back to Libya, but the United States ignored these requests. Human Rights Watch interviewed Abdusalam Abdulhadi Omar as-Safrani in Benghazi in March 2012. The following account and quotes are drawn from this interview unless other- wise noted. 360 Departure from Libya Safrani told Human Rights Watch that he left Libya in 1990 because of the enormous pressure the Gaddafi government was putting on those committed to Islam. He first went to Saudi Arabia, but without proper papers it was difficult to remain. He went to Pakistan and then Afghanistan. He said he was not a member of the LIFG or al Qaeda and he went to Afghanistan as an immigrant, not to fight against the Soviet-installed government, as did other Libyans. 361 Others detained with Safrani in Guantanamo corroborate that Safrani was not a fighter. 362 Records from Guantanamo also indicate that he had “congenital clubbed feet.” 363 Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi currently held at Guantanamo who apparently knew 358 Abdusalam Abdulhadi Omar as-Safrani also went by the names of “Mohammed Rimi,” Abdallah Mansur al-Rimi, and Muhammad Abd Allah Mansur al Futuri. 359 Safrani is one of 10 Libyans the US detained in Guantanamo. Two, including Safrani, were sent back to Libya; one was transferred to Albania, one to the UK, and two to the country of Georgia. The other four continue to be held at Guantanamo. See “The Guantanamo Docket: Citizens of Libya,” New York Times, http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/country/libya (accessed July 27, 2012). 360 Human Rights Watch Interview with Safrani, Benghazi, Libya, March 20, 2012. 361 Though Safrani said he was not a member of the LIFG when he was arrested, according to US intelligence reports assembled in what is called a Risk Assessment file for Safrani, some other LIFG members and others captured by the US and detained in Guantanamo have said that he was a LIFG member some years earlier. See “The Guantanamo Files,” Risk Assessment File for Prisoner 194, wikilieaks.org, http://wikileaks.org/gitmo/prisoner/194.html# (accessed June 22, 2012), p.5. 362 Ibid. 363 Ibid., p. 1. 117 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | SEPTEMBER 2012
Safrani in Afghanistan, said that though Safrani was at a training camp, he was just simply “sitting with the brothers.… [Safrani was a] simple person who could not make explosives and had bad security.” 364 After the US invasion of Afghanistan following the September 11 attacks, Safrani fled Afghanistan to Pakistan, where he was apprehended by Pakistani security forces. He was first taken to Kohat prison, where he was held for two weeks by the Pakistani military. There he was interrogated by Americans in civilian clothes who took pictures of him. After two weeks he was transferred to US custody and taken to Kandahar in Afghanistan. There, he said, US personnel interrogated him continually and deprived him of sleep. His cell was in a tent and he was detained with about 10 to 15 other detainees. He said it was very cold and there was no heat and not enough food. “This was January,” he told Human Rights Watch. “They gave us only one blanket for each prisoner and it wasn’t warm enough.” The Americans held him there for approximately six weeks and then transferred him to Guantanamo Bay. Transfer to Guantanamo He said the 18-hour transit to Guantanamo was rough. He was transported with a large group. Their heads were shaven and they were dressed in orange jumpsuits, hooded, and required to wear headphones and black glasses to block sound and sight. Safrani was only told he was being taken to a US Navy base but not told where. He only later figured out he was in Guantanamo. He was given a blanket, toothbrush, and towel and then put in a cell that was about 2 x 1 meters, where he was held for the next three months. It had a wooden ceiling, held up by four pipes from each corner of the room, mesh walls, and a concrete floor. There was no toilet in the cell, just a bucket. After about three months, he was moved by bus to another detention facility at Guantanamo, where he was detained for the next five years. He described this facility as a hangar, with galvanized steel walls and a slanted roof. His cell was about the same size as his prior one—the main difference being the walls were not mesh and the lights were on 24 hours per day. The Americans also played voices and sounds over a loudspeaker between 7 a.m. and about 1 p.m. and would sometimes bang on the galvanized steel sheets to make noise. 364 Ibid., p. 5. DELIVERED INTO ENEMY HANDS 118
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Gaddafi opponents in Libya. Ten of
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identified in this report to Libya,
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Libya from the 1970s to the 1990s I
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Gaddafi also made major changes to
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Abu Salim massacre, in which prison
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insurgency, mainly in eastern Libya
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PLACES OF ARREST, DATES OF TRANSFER
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Shoroeiya and Sharif said that once
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Arrest and Detention Shoroeiya and
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CIA Rendition Transportation Proced
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Abu Yasser al Jazairi, from Algeria
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Afghanistan on April 25, 2004. Both
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him in Pashto, they spoke to him in
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Loud music was blaring constantly.
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