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ask him to please inform my family in Yemen that I believe that on this date ___ I will be
transferred to Guantanamo tomorrow.’” Di’iki could not remember the date. Another was
Kuwaiti, but he couldn’t remember his name.
In Morocco, Di’iki was detained for about one month. He said his detention conditions
were not that bad. His cell was made of stone, had a window and a mattress on the floor.
“If you want to compare it to the other places I was later held,” he said, “it was five stars.”
He was able to communicate with one other prisoner, Abu Omar al-Maghrebi. 226 The others
were too afraid to talk. Abu Omar al-Maghrebi confirmed that he was in Morocco, but the
food and the guards who identified themselves as Moroccan and spoke Arabic with a
Moroccan accent also made this clear. Di’iki and Abu Omar al-Maghrebi would signal by
banging on the walls that it was safe to speak and then they would whisper to each other
through the wall very carefully so as not to be heard. Abu Omar al-Maghrebi said he had
come from Guantanamo and that all the prisoners where the two of them were being held
at the time seemed to be taken to either Guantanamo or Bagram.
Di’iki said that in Morocco he was interrogated by a woman who he believes was American.
She was tall, blonde, with light green eyes, about 35 years old, and wore civilian clothes
and the same type of military boots that the American interrogator in Mauritania wore. She
spoke with an American accent and used a female Tunisian interpreter. She interrogated
him about four or five times over the course of about two weeks. He said she was continuously
angry with him. He was blindfolded in the beginning, but then she had the blindfold
removed, saying that she was not afraid of “you Arabic people.” When he asked if he could
call his wife, who was seven months pregnant, the interrogator accused him of being
insensitive to the crimes that “his people” had committed.
After a month, his guards took him to a place where he could hear a plane. This was
sometime in early January 2004, possibly January 7. Another detainee was there—he could
hear him walking—and he counted six American guards. They used mainly sign language,
but sometimes they said a word or two in English, which they spoke with an American
accent. They wore military uniforms with American flags on them and had masks on their
226 The name Abu Omar al-Maghrebi indicates in Arabic that he is from Morocco. While al-Maghrebi means “the Moroccan
one,” it does not necessarily mean he comes from there.
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