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Mohamedou Ould Slahi ((アラビア語:محمد ولد صلاحي)) (born December 31, 1970) is a Mauritanian who has been detained at Guantánamo Bay detention camp since August 4, 2002. He is being held under the authority of Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF), alleged by the US government to be "part of" al Qaeda at the time of his arrest. In January 2015 his memoir, ''Guantanamo Diary'' was published. He is the first detainee to publish a memoir while still imprisoned. His book has become an international bestseller.〔 Slahi traveled to Afghanistan in December 1990 "to support the mujahideen". At that time, the mujahideen in Afghanistan were attempting to topple the communist government of Mohammad Najibullah, which the United States also opposed. At the time, it provided support to the mujahideen. Slahi trained in an al Qaeda camp and swore ''bayat'' to al Qaeda in March 1991. He returned to Germany soon after but then traveled back to Afghanistan for three months in early 1992. Slahi states that he "severed all ties with ... al-Qaeda" after he left Afghanistan at that time.〔 The U.S. government maintains that Slahi "recruited for al-Qaeda and provided it with other support" since then.〔 Slahi turned himself in to Mauritanian authorities for questioning about the Millennium Plot on November 20, 2001. He was detained for seven days and questioned by Mauritanian officers and by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Eventually, the CIA rendered him to Jordan where he was held for eight months at a black site. Slahi states that he was tortured by the Jordanians. After being flown to Afghanistan and held for two weeks, he was transferred to military custody and the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba on August 4, 2002. Slahi was subjected to isolation, temperature extremes, beatings and sexual humiliation at Guantánamo. In one documented incident, he was blindfolded and taken out to sea in a boat for a mock execution. Lt. Col Stuart Couch refused to prosecute Slahi in a Military Commission in 2003. He said in 2007 that "Slahi's incriminating statements—the core of the government's case—had been taken through torture, rendering them inadmissible under U.S. and international law."〔 (mirror )〕 Following the Supreme Court decision in ''Boumediene v. Bush'' (2008), which ruled that detainees could have access to federal courts, Slahi challenged the lawfulness of his detention in federal district court. Judge James Robertson granted a writ of ''habeas corpus'' ordering Slahi to be released on March 22, 2010. In his unclassified opinion, Judge Robertson wrote: "associations alone are not enough, of course, to make detention lawful."〔 (mirror ).〕 The Department of Justice appealed the decision, which was heard on September 17, 2010. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the ruling and remanded the case to the District Court on November 5, 2010 for further factual findings.〔 Slahi wrote a memoir in prison in 2005, which the US government declassified in 2013 with numerous redactions. ''Slate'' published excerpts from the memoir as a series beginning in April 2013.〔 The book, entitled ''Guantánamo Diary'', was published in January 2015. It has become an international bestseller.〔 ==1988-1999== Slahi was an exceptional student in high school. In 1988 he received a scholarship from the Carl Duisberg Society to study in Germany, where he earned an engineering degree from the University of Duisburg.〔 In 1991, Slahi traveled to Afghanistan to join the mujaheddin fighting against the communist central government. He trained for several weeks at the al Farouq training camp near Kandahar.〔 At the end of his training in March 1991, he swore ''bayat'' to al Qaeda and was given the ''kunya'' (nom de guerre) of "Abu Musab."〔〔 He returned to Germany. In January 1992, Slahi traveled again to Afghanistan and was assigned to a mortar battery in Gardez. In March, the Mohammad Najibullah regime fell and he returned to Germany.〔 In hearings in Guantanamo, Slahi has stated that he traveled to Afghanistan twice, attended the al Farouq training camp, and fought against the Afghan central government in 1992, but that he was never an enemy combatant against the United States.〔〔〔 In 1992 the United States supported the mujaheddin fight against the communist government in Afghanistan.〔 Slahi's cousin and former brother-in-law is Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, also known as Abu Hafs al-Mauritania. Before the September 11 attacks in the United States, Al-Walid was a spiritual adviser to Osama bin Laden, was on the shura council of al Qaeda, and headed the sharia council.〔 However, two months before the attacks, al-Walid, along with several other al Qaeda members, wrote a letter to bin Laden opposing the planned attacks. Al-Walid left al Qaeda after the attacks. While al-Walid was in Sudan, where al Qaeda was based in the mid-1990s, he twice asked Slahi to help him get money to his family in Mauritania, about $4,000 in December 1997 and another $4,000 in December 1998. In the 2010 ''habeas corpus'' opinion for Slahi, the judge wrote: "the government relies on nothing but Salahi's uncorroborated, coerced statements to conclude that the money transfers were done on behalf of and in support of al-Qaida."〔 In 1998, Slahi was heard by U.S. intelligence talking to al-Walid on a satellite phone traced to bin Laden.〔〔 (mirror )〕〔 The 9/11 Commission Report reported that in 1999, Slahi advised three members of the Hamburg Cell to travel to Afghanistan to obtain training before waging jihad in Chechnya. But, the federal District Court in 2010 that reviewed Slahi's case found that Slahi "provided lodging for three men for one night at his home in Germany (November 1999 ), that one of them was Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and that there was discussion of jihad and Afghanistan."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mohamedou Ould Slahi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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