Freed Gitmo Prisoner Binyam Mohamed Experienced "Nightmare We Can't Imagine"

He was released on the same day the Pentagon issued an 85-page report declaring Guantanamo to be in compliance with the Geneva Conventions. In a statement released to the media, Binyam Mohamed said: “It is still difficult for me to believe that I was abducted, hauled from one country to the next, and tortured in medieval ways – all orchestrated by the United States government.”

Mohamed was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 before being taken to Morocco and Afghanistan, and then on to Guantanamo Bay, where he spent more than four years. He also accused the British government of being complicit in his torture.

Clive Stafford Smith joins us on the phone from Britain. He is the legal director of the British charity Reprieve and Binyam Mohamed’s attorney.

Clive Stafford Smith, Binyam Mohamed’s attorney. He is the legal director of the UK charity Reprieve and has represented more than 50 Guantanamo Bay prisoners. He is author of, “Eight O’Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay.”