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he was in Karachi, Pakistan. After the attacks, he went to Iran via Afghanistan, then to
Malaysia, and then back to Mauritania.
Arrest and Detention
Mauritanian authorities arrested Di’iki on October 12, 2003 and took him to the headquarters
of the main military intelligence agency, where he was interrogated for two to three
weeks. He said that after two weeks, the Mauritanian authorities informed him that they
had no problem with him but that the Americans wanted him detained. Then a second
group of interrogators came. They spoke Arabic but did not seem to be Mauritanian. He
said a Mauritanian official told him that these interrogators were Israeli. They took him to a
villa, which was called Kufra Zeina, asked him many questions about Israel, and accused
him of planning to use his car to blow up the Israeli embassy in Mauritania. Di’iki called
these allegations “ridiculous.” Then he was taken back to military intelligence headquarters
where the senior official there, Abdullah, told him that someone from the United
States had come to ask him some questions. Di’iki said that the American, who spoke to
him in French, was perhaps under 30, of medium height, with white skin and blond hair,
and wearing glasses and military boots. The man questioned him for one day. Di’iki
remained at the military intelligence building for another two weeks.
One day at noon, Mauritanian authorities handcuffed him and took him to the airport. They
told him he was being taken to Morocco because he had a Moroccan passport. He said the
Mauritanian authorities were well aware he was Libyan. He had told them he only had a
Moroccan passport because he could not get a Libyan one. At the airport there was a small
Fokker aircraft for 14 passengers waiting for them. When he arrived in Morocco, Moroccan
agents took him to a prison where he said there were a lot of names on the walls of people
who were eventually taken to Guantanamo. One he remembers was a Yemeni, Ramzi bin
al-Shibh. 225 Di’iki told Human Rights Watch, “He had written on the wall, ‘For the one who
is going to read this, I am Ramzi bin al-Shibh and for anyone who can read these lines, I
225 Ramzi bin al-Shibh is currently in Guantanamo. He is one of five accused, in addition to Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, of
planning and orchestrating the September 11 attacks. After his arrest in September 2002, he was forcibly disappeared into
secret CIA custody, his whereabouts not known to the public until September 2006 when President George W. Bush
announced his transfer, along with 13 other detainees, to Guantanamo. For evidence that bin al-Shibh was in Morocco at this
time, see Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman, “CIA flight carried secret from Gitmo,” Associated Press, August 6, 2010,
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/06/ap-exclusive-cia-flight-carried-secret-from-gitmo/ (accessed August 22,
2012).
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