Guantanamo Survivor: I Was in Hell

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

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🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Hear the ad-free version at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Mansoor Adayfi shares his harrowing story of being kidnapped and brought to Guantanamo: “Then I was dragged to my cage, naked. Six of the guards beat me and tied me with a hood and duct tape. It was messaging. When they took the hood off, I couldn’t see for hours because of the bright light and my eyes were swollen from the beating.“I was asking: Am I in Hell? Am I dead?” Fourteen years later, Mansoor was proven innocent and released to Serbia. He still lives with years of trauma and the social shame of being formerly-labeled a suspected terrorist. And after all that, our government does nothing to help him. Now, Adayfi is working to shut Guantanamo down with activism, paintings, and his book Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo. The US government tries to hide and mask their torture of innocent people. It’s time for us to learn what’s really going on. Listen to Mansoor Adayfi’s story. It’s tragic, evil, and in the end, inspiring. Plus, terrible Dems love Dick Cheney, Tucker Carlson’s awful joke, and virtual reality cows. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. And stay tuned for the extended interview on Monday, in which Adayfi discusses his hunger strike, the cruelty of American torture, and how he’s learned to live with trauma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to useful idiots. I'm your co-host Katie helper and I'm Aaron Matte sitting
0:11.4	in for Matte. For a long time. For a while. Yeah. Yeah. He's here. He's get he wants you to get used to it.
0:20.0	Stop writing me. It doesn't matter. I'm not leaving. Matt is writing a book. When he finishes the book,
0:25.8	he'll be back until then you got to deal with you can call me Aaron Matte. How about that? Oh,
0:31.2	I like that Aaron Matt. Is that a compromise? Is that a compromise? Okay. That's good. That's
0:35.6	really good. Yeah. I didn't I did you think of that on the spot? No. I think no, I've had that pun
0:41.4	in the works for a long time. Wow. I workshopped it. Before you knew about the place. Oh, yeah.
0:47.4	Well, I used to watch these fully. It's every single week and I would I would just stare at the screen
0:51.2	and picture myself in the co-host chair and I would just hit him myself over over. I'm Aaron
0:56.8	Matte. I'm Aaron Matte. Yeah. You manifested it. I manifested it exactly. That's amazing. Well,
1:03.6	we got a great show for you today. We have an amazing guest, Mansor Diffie, who is someone who spent
1:10.4	14 years in Guantanamo and we are bringing you this show because it is the 20 year anniversary of
1:16.5	the opening of Guantanamo. He has a great book. Don't forget us here, Lost in Fan and Guantanamo,
1:23.3	that he's going to talk about. It sounds like it's a depressing chat and there of course there's
1:28.0	a lot of very sad and disturbing stuff that we talk about, but he's such an inspiring and inspired
1:33.5	person that it's actually an uplifting chat at the same time. No, it's a pretty incredible story
1:39.6	and we're very fortunate to be able to talk to him and to you know that he first of all survived
1:45.8	to be able to tell the story because as he talks about other people that were with him and Guantanamo
1:50.3	did not make it and just the way he's been able to go through such hell and still come out of it
1:56.4	the way he has is just it's pretty incredible and he has a lot to say and it's a pretty amazing
2:01.6	conversation. So let's go through the four basic food groups, the Democrats suck or public
2:06.3	and suck isn't that weird isn't that terrible? So you got Dems this week, right? I got Dems this
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