Quote 2: No One Knows

Pg: To many to count

“What have I done”

With every interrogation scene comes a “what have I done?”, with every torture scene comes a “what have I done?”, and with every isolation scene comes “what have I done?”. The quote is repeatable and to the point. It has been uttered by Mohamedou as both a statement and a question. It has always been answered by decrepit or roundabout statements. My personal “favourites”: Terrorist, killer, psychopath, U.S hater, and “you answer that question for me”. I can’t imagine what it feels like to have my words ignored and my “what have I done” left unanswered and used to write more lies in my file. But I will give the interrogators a little slack, they had no better an idea than Mohamedou. There was little evidence of any of the crimes that had “without a doubt been made”. And the fact left every interrogator at loss, as only the U.S. had yet to clear him whereas Canada, Germany, and Mauritania claimed his innocence. It makes me wonder why no country or person is powerful enough or even willing to protect a clearly innocent man from the obvious paranoia of the U.S. The answer to “what have I done” when I finished the memoir is obvious, he has done nothing. The problem is: How will we as fellow humans help get that point across without condemning him further?