Delivered Into Enemy Hands - Human Rights Watch

The interrogator also asked him if he knew people in al Qaeda as well as other questions
about Libyans in the United Kingdom. Madaghi said he explained that he was with the LIFG,
not with al Qaeda.
Madaghi said that the foreign interrogator threatened him throughout the interrogations. He
told Madaghi that harm would come to his wife and family if he did not provide the answers
he wanted. His captors brought his wife to the detention center, showed her to Madaghi
through a keyhole, and threatened to rape her if he did not cooperate. They also warned that
his children would be orphaned. They went to his home and returned with recordings of his
children’s voices for him to hear and then threatened their safety. The language used by the
foreign interrogator was full of derogatory and obscene sexual comments.
After two weeks another foreigner, who Madaghi said appeared more European than the
alleged American interrogator, administered a lie detector test that Madaghi said he
passed. He thought this might be the end of his detention, but then he was taken to a
different facility in Mauritania. 239 In total, Madaghi was detained in Mauritania from
February 5, 2004 until sometime at the end of March 2004.
Morocco
Madaghi told Human Rights Watch that one night around midnight, he was taken abruptly
from the detention center in Mauritania and put on a bus. He was blindfolded and his
hands were bound, but he could see the feet of the people holding him. At some point all
the Mauritanians got off the bus and others, wearing boots, got on. They took his blindfold
off and he saw that he was now in the custody of several large men, perhaps five or six. He
knew that he had been taken to the airport.
He believed the men who boarded the bus were Americans. They were wearing black and
had masks on their faces; through the eyeholes he could see fair skin and eyes and light
eyebrows. They were careful not to say very much, but he could hear some English. His
belief that they were American was confirmed by the Tripoli Documents and his subsequent
detention at a facility in Morocco that appeared to be run by Americans. While on
the bus they took off all of his clothes; inspected his eyes, ears, and mouth with a device;
239 This would be sometime in early March.
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