On Sept. 11, 2001, Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Couch’s friend died
co-piloting the second plane to hit the World Trade Center. Soon after,
Couch became one of the first military prosecutors assigned to the U.S.
military base at Guantánamo Bay to prosecute men alleged to have carried
out the terrorist plot. He ultimately would refuse to prosecute one
detainee: Mohamedou Ould Slahi. “It became clear that what had been done
to Slahi amounted to torture,” Couch says. “Specifically, he had been
subjected to a mock execution. He had sensory deprivation. He had
environmental manipulation, that is, cell’s too cold or the cell is too
hot ... He was presented with a ruse that the United States had taken
custody of his mother and his brother and that they were being brought
to Guantánamo.”
Couch says he concluded Slahi’s treatment amounted to
illegal torture. “I came to the conclusion we had knowingly set him up
for mental suffering in order for him to provide information,” Couch
said. “We might very well have a significant problem with the body of
evidence that we were able to present as to his guilt.”
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