The Road to Guantanamo Page #3

It was wet and really cold.

And I had a, had a cloth.I ripped the cloth

and I start..

...wiping the water off and just squeezing it

and drinking it.

Check them.

Get up!

Aqu est.

Get up!

He's dead.

Who's still alive?

This one.

Get up.

They were taking bodies

off the trucks, dead bodies...

...and throwing them on to a pile and

searching their pockets.

I didn't know what was happening.

I was just like a zombie.

Asif.

You could smell the stench of, like,

it was death you could smell on him.

Are you all right?

Is Asif okay?

He's got a bullet wound.

Sheberghan Prison, Northern Afghanistan.

Hundreds of Afghan and foreign fighters are

being held here...

...in extremely over-crowded conditions.

These Taliban fighters are

presume highly dangerous...

...after the recent riots

in nearby Kalajangi prison...

...where several hundred

Taliban prisoners...

...over-powered their

Northern Alliance guards.

You'd go for days without food or water.

- The bread's here. The bread's here.

- Bread!

- I've got some,man.

- Give me some!

- Give some to Asif.

- Yeah, I got it, I got it.

At night it was so crowded that we had to

take turns in sleeping.

Once the Red Cross came,

things started getting better.

- Where are you from?

- I'm from Pakistan.

In the prison everyone told us

"Just don't say you're British".

- Ah, What's your name?

- Ramesh.

- Ruhel? Where are you from?

- I'm from Pakistan.

Give us one.

(Asif) Here, man.

Can I have one, please?

- i think We should tell the journalist man our story.

- F***ing sell him it, you know.

Just stick to the story.

We're from Pakistan. Then we'll get home quicker.

Who speaks English?

What?

English?

He needs a person who can speak English.

English.

-Do you speak English? come quickly.

- You want to go? Be careful, huh?

- Probably get free.

What is your name?

Ruhel Ahmed.

Age?

Twenty.

- Where are you from?

- I'm from Tipton.

- Where in f*** is Tipton?

- Tipton, Birmingham.

- Yeah, Tipton, England, yeah.

- You're from England? You a**hole!

- What are you doing here?

- F***, man...

- Answer me!

- We come on a trip, man.

- Who's "we"?

- Me and two of my mates.

Names. What are their names?

Come on!

Shafiq Rasul an Asif lqbal.

Okay, thank you.

Listen, you're in US custody now. It's okay.

- Take him away and search him.

- Search me?

Bring me Shafiq Rasul an Asif lqbal.

- Get up.

- Why search me?

We're primarily looking at...

...detainees that we can use for collecting

intelligence.

Shafiq Rasul!

- Get out!

- Move it.

Because you live in Britain, you got this thing about Americans,

you think, "yeah, Americans, they're all right".

- Name?

- Asif lqbal.

I thought, yeah, it's all right now...

...I mean, nothing's gonna happen.

well, I was wrong.

Where are you from?

From Pakistan.

Don't lie to me, Shafiq.

Where are you from?

From Pakistan, Karachi.

Don't f***ing lie to me!

One more time now. Where are you from?

I live in England, but I came from Pakistan.

- Ah Okay.

- Came here from Pakistan.

Sit up straight!

Put your legs out!

- What the f***'s going on here, mate?

- Shut up! Shut up!

I thought they were gonna hang us.

KANDAHAR - AFGHANISTAN

-Up, move it!

You, you, you...

Keep your head bent own.

In a single file line.

Straight in front of you.

Keep your heads bent down!

When the guy was searching me, he threw

me to the floor, he was kicking me at the same time.

Keep your heads down!

You, you, you, you, you, up, up!

Move them over there.

Keep it moving now. Move it, move it!

Get up!

- Move it!

- Move, get up, get up!

Come on!

- Up, up, up, up.

- Move.

- Come on.

- Get up, get up.

F***ing move! Move it!

Come on, move!

Put your legs down.

I'll break your f***ing arm!

I'll break your f***ing arm!

Back of the yard!

Now!

Okay, folks, show's over.

Here are your clothes.

Come on!

Don't move. Don't move!

Look, look at me, look at me.

See over there?

If you move, he's gonna blow your f***ing

head off! Don't move!

Don't move!

Kanahar Airbase in southern Afghanistan.

It's now a prison for some of Al Queda's

most dangerous fighters.

I think we're now down to sorting out the

really bad guys...

...so our guard is up, the Marines are ready

for anything.

- Get those prisoners up and back.

- Yes, sir.

We weren't allowed to talk,

we weren't allowed to walk...

...you know, you couldn't look up at the

soldiers.

Stand up, that's right.

Come here, come here.

Show me your hands.

Prisoner 78! 78!

Get back, all the way back.

You know the drill. Go all the way.

- Turn around!

- Face away from us, face away!

Go, go, go!

Get him up!

Put him on his knees.

Get on your knees. On your knees,

there you go.

Private, straighten him up.

Yes, sir.

Take the bag off his head.

Thank you.

Can you see me?

Can you see him?

See me?

If you move, he'll shoot you.

Thank you, Private.

- What's your name?

- Shafiq Rasul.

and, er, What's your date of birth?

April, okay.

Who were you travelling with to Pakistan?

I was with my friends,

one of them was getting married.

And they're here as well.

Apart from one of them got lost in Kunduz.

Because he got on one of the earlier

convoys to leave.

One of the ones that got bombed.

You mean he's dead?

I think so.

- What's his name?

- Monir.

- Everyone get back!

- Get back!

Three, two, one. Stay where you are!

- Get back in position.

- Everyone back!

It was hot in the day and

it was freezing in the night.

You want one?

- Not you! Get back!

- Over here, man.

- Over here, man.

- Hey! Over there, go on, get back!

Get back. Get back!

You, you. You, you...

Back, back, back, back!

Every hour they'd wake us up...

...make us stand in a line and they'd take

everyone's numbers.

Head count, everybody up!

Let's see your wristbands, hold them up,

let's see your number.

...21, 147, 207...

...28, 15, 91...

Move it, go, go.

What the f***, man.

If you move I will shoot you,

you understand?

Yeah, yeah.

- You want some of this?

- Yeah, I wouldn't mind.

Because you can have as much

as you want.

More than you could possibly eat.

If you tell us what the other

people are saying.

What do you wanna know?

Well, let's start with, er, absolutely anything.

But I don't speak the language now, do I?

- What do you talk?

- I talk Bengali.

- And them?

- I don't know. Urdu, Arabic...

...something. I don't know.

- You know what I think?

I think you're full of sh*t! You've been

hanging out with these guys how long?

You don't understand one god-damn word?

Well, do you?

Get back! Get up!

- Move yourself!

- On your knees, get down!

Down, face down! Down!

Head down.

Go!

F*** you.

If you looked at a guard right,what do they do...

they point...they- they always like to do this ...

...they point at you, in your eyes,

and say 'look down'...

Used to do it with the hands

all the time.

And if you looked at them, basically,

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