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Today, a former prisoner returns to Afghanistan, where he was detained during the so-called war on terror.

What still haunts him more than 20 years later?

I returned essentially to a scene of a crime,

and I think those crimes are still not being uncovered fully.

I'm Malika Bilal, and this is the take.

My question is The Take. My name is Maizam Begg.

I am a senior director at the advocacy group Cage.

I'm a former prisoner of the United States at Guantanamo.

I'm an author and I'm happy to be with you today.

Moazam, welcome to the take.

We're happy to have you.

You are also the subject of a new Al Jazeera documentary, Echoes of Bagram, in which you travel

back to Afghanistan for the first time since the early 2000s.

You were imprisoned in Afghanistan in 2002 during the U.S. led

so-called War on Terror, which led you to Bagram. Built by the former Soviet Union in the

1950s, the sprawling base has expanded since the U.S. invasion. Can you tell us what happened

after you were detained and sent there as a prisoner?

So primarily I was detained in Pakistan and I was sent from Pakistan then into U.S. military

custody.

Now, Bagran was somewhere that I ended up spending almost a year in without charge of trial

by the U. the US military.

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