Guantanamo Diary By Prisoner Detained Without Charge To Be Released

This inmate is detained in Guantanamo. His diary will be released on Tuesday after long years of weary strife with the US officials to "declassify" it.

It was in 2002, that the Mauritanian, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, was taken to Guantanamo on a US rendition flight, under the belief that he had tried to pursue a terrorist attack on the US in 1999. The 44-year-old revealed that he had "confessed to participating in a number of terrorist activities" after his American captors threatened him, according to rt.com.

His interrogators asked if his statement was true. To which he replied: "I don't care as long as you are pleased. So if you want to buy, I am selling."

Next week, Salmi's book, 'Guantanamo Diary,' narrating in "redacted yet dramatic style" his entire problem right from the time his plane landed in Cuba will be released.

He will not be agreeing to any public book signings, as he continues to remain at Guantanamo.

He is said to have joined al-Qaeda in the 1990s in order to help fight against Afghanistan's Soviet-backed government. Salmi admits that he left the group in 1992. After the 9/11 attacks, he was arrested by US authorities as he was involved in an attempt to bomb Los Angeles International Airport in 1999.

In a redition flight, he was taken to the US military base in a remote corner of Cuba in 2002, after being questioned at Mauritania, Jordan and Afghanistan.

Salmi was bound and hooded, and taken to Cuba on an aircraft, which he describes graphically. Extracts have been published in The Guardian.

"I had a mask over my mouth and my nose, plus the bag covering my head and my face, not to mention the tight belt around my stomach: breathing was impossible. I kept saying, "MP, Sir, I cannot breathe! ... MP, SIR, please." But it seemed like my pleas for help got lost in a vast desert."

At Guantanamo, he was pressurized into "solitary confinement" where he "was on the edge of losing his mind." He was forced into "sleep deprivation, death threats, sexual humiliation and intimations", according to The Guardian.

Appallingly, he had never been charged of having done anything criminal, says Salmi's attorney, Nancy Hollander. "It's not that they haven't found the evidence against him - there isn't evidence against him," she said, as quoted by AFP. "He's in what I would consider a horrible legal limbo, and it's just tragic."

Currently, there are still 122 prisoners at Guantanamo. Its conditions had made Amnesty International call it "the Gulag of our days."