Qasem, Abubakir - short clip - nofuture
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(man speaks in foreign language) | 0:00 | |
Translator | The benefit of it, | 0:04 |
the positive came out of my experience | 0:06 | |
in Guantanamo is I have learned to be patient. | 0:09 | |
I learned the patience down there, | 0:13 | |
it changed me in that way. | 0:16 | |
I became a lot more patient, | 0:18 | |
and the worst effect in my life is basically | 0:21 | |
my future is gone because of this. | 0:27 | |
When people look at us, they don't look at | 0:32 | |
my 36 years of life prior to Guantanamo. | 0:37 | |
They'll look at my four years of life in Guantanamo. | 0:41 | |
Doesn't matter what they say, | 0:45 | |
they say that I am innocent, | 0:46 | |
they released me and all that. | 0:48 | |
But when people hear that I have been to Guantanamo, | 0:50 | |
they look at me differently. | 0:54 | |
Some people don't even say hi | 0:55 | |
to me because they know that I was in Guantanamo. | 0:57 | |
So this Guantanamo, | 1:00 | |
this name became a big black stamp in my head. | 1:03 | |
A lot of people judge me because of that. | 1:07 | |
All this like terrorists in Guantanamo, this and that. | 1:09 | |
And people take a cautious, | 1:13 | |
and my future, | 1:16 | |
whatever I want to do, | 1:17 | |
this is really affecting my future. | 1:19 | |
So that makes me sad. | 1:22 | |
When I think about how my future is gone now | 1:24 | |
because of that, | 1:27 | |
my life in Guantanamo. | 1:28 |
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