Benchellali, Mourad, interview 1 - short clip - PsychologicalWarfare
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- | There were some guards. | 0:02 |
I remember at the beginning, before we went to Camp Delta. | 0:04 | |
We were in Camp X Ray. | 0:07 | |
Some guards told us, well, one detainee had asked a guard, | 0:08 | |
why do you treat us this way? Why do you beat us up? | 0:12 | |
It's unfair. So he said, | 0:15 | |
you're going to be sent to another camp, called Camp Delta. | 0:18 | |
And over there, they won't beat you up anymore, | 0:21 | |
but psychologically it's going to be very hard for you. | 0:24 | |
We'll do anything to make you all crazy. | 0:27 | |
And so we passed it on to all the detainees and all that. | 0:30 | |
We told each other, | 0:34 | |
the American's goal is to make us all go crazy. | 0:35 | |
So each time we thought, if we break, they will have one. | 0:38 | |
It will be their victory in a way, | 0:42 | |
because that's what they want. | 0:44 | |
They want us to become completely mad so that | 0:45 | |
it would give more credit to their claims against us. | 0:48 | |
They could say, see? They're madman, crazies, | 0:51 | |
they're full of hatred and all that. | 0:54 | |
So we were right when we accused them of being | 0:56 | |
dangerous terrorists and so on. | 0:58 | |
So we didn't want to fall into that trap. | 1:00 | |
So that led us to fight in order not to fall apart, | 1:03 | |
not to become crazy, to stay strong because we thought | 1:06 | |
if we fall apart, they will have one. | 1:10 | |
It's like warfare, psychological warfare. | 1:12 | |
So it isn't a physical war, but we must not let them win. | 1:15 |
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