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Clips from The Mauritanian

"And we wish to represent you."
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"We brought you some food."
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"Hope it's okay. It's all they have on base."
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"Mr. Slahi, I understand that it might be hard for you to believe,"
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"but we are not here as interrogators."
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"We are not working for the US government in any way."
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"Well, I'd like to explain your legal situation."
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"In June, the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land,"
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"ruled that prisoners in Guantánamo"
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"are entitled to file for habeas corpus petitions."
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"This means that the government"
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"must produce any evidence that they have against you,"
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"and then the court decides if that evidence is enough to justify holding you."
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"And if it isn't, you'll be released."
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"Well, if you agree to let us represent you,"
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"we will file a writ of habeas on your behalf."
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"This is the contract."
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"How can you defend me"
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"if you don't even know what I'm charged with?"
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"- [Teri] Have you been charged? - No! No, no."
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"Three years, they charged me with nothing."
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"They kidnapped me from my home"
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"and put me in a jail in Jordan for five months,"
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"then in a military base in Afghanistan,"
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"which was like living in a toilet, by the way,"
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"and brought me here with a bag on my head and chains around my body."
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"What do they accuse you of during your interrogations?"
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"I'm interrogated 18 hours, every day, 3 years."
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"That's like... go ask Charlie Sheen to name all his girlfriends."
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"[chuckles]"
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"So you get the news here."
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"Now that I... cooperate..."
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"they let me have a TV."
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"We don't get news, but we have this show, E Exclamation."
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"It's just E! I think the exclamation is silent."
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"Have they shown you any evidence they have against you?"
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"No. Yes... No."
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"Well, one time they showed I had taken a call from Bin Laden's satellite phone."
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"- Did you? - Yes, I did. [chuckles]"
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"That was my cousin."
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"He calls me, I don't know what phone he is using."
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"I took a call."
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"Just the once?"
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"He just called you once from Bin Laden's phone?"
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"They're watching everything I say, everything I do."
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"[Teri] They only have video."
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"Oh, yeah?"
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"We can't talk about these things, not here."
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"Will you write it down?"
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"Your story, how you came here, what happened to you,"
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"will you write that down for us?"
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"So my interrogators can read it?"
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"I tried that once already. It didn't end well."
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"Well, we need your testimony."
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"I've been writing all my life, and I like that."
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"But writing here is way much dangerous than talking."
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"If you choose to let us represent you,"
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"then we will have attorney-client privilege."
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"And that means that anything that you say, anything that you write down,"
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"will be protected from the prosecution by law."
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"They can't use it against you."
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"You don't wanna do that, then don't sign. You can stay here trouble-free."
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"[banging on door]"
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"[female guard] One minute."
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"[sighs]"
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"Okay."
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"You do one thing for me."
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"Call this number."
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"Ask to speak to my mother."
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"Tell her..."
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"I don't know, something nice."
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"[door opens]"
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"[female guard] That's it."
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"All right."
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"Thank you."
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"See you later, alligators."
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"Now you have to say..."
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""After a while, crocodile.""
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"Not for a while, crocodile."
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"Good enough."
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"Gather your notes together."
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"You'll get them back at the secure facility stateside."
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"In here."
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"Who decided to put him in shackles?"
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"Protocol. It's for your protection, ma'am."
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"I wanna know whose name I should cite"
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"when I contact the National Security desk at The New York Times."
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"You tell your CO I don't wanna see my client in shackles ever again."
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"Are you praying?"
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"No, memorizing his mother's number."
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"We're not gonna call that number."
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"No, we gotta clear it first."
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"We don't know who's on the other end of that line."
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"You don't think it's his mother?"
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"I don't know."
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"But no one just gets a phone call from Bin Laden's sat phone."
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"[man] This is our guy."
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"He got a scholarship to study electrical engineering in Germany in 1988."
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"Two years later, he traveled to Afghanistan and joined Al-Qaeda."
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"These are just two of the bad guys we know he associated with."
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"Mahfouz Ould al-Walid,"
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"otherwise known as Abu Hafs, Slahi's cousin and brother-in-law."
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"They were close growing up."
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"In the mid-'90s, Abu Hafs was designated personal poet and spiritual adviser"
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"to Bin Laden himself."
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"Between '97 and '99,"
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"German intelligence tracked money transfers and phone calls"
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"between Slahi and his cousin in Afghanistan."
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"We can show that Slahi was financing terror."
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"Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the so-called 20th hijacker."
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"In '99, Slahi recruited bin al-Shibh and other members of the Hamburg cell,"
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"including Marwan al-Shehhi,"
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"pilot of the plane that hit the South Tower,"
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"and Ziad Jarrah, who was on United 93."
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"That's just two."
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"There's about ten other scary names he crossed paths with."
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"This dude is the Al-Qaeda Forrest Gump."
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"Everywhere you look, he's there."
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"It's all there in the top sheet."
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"Now we gotta check through the intel reports and corroborate."
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