BINYAM MOHAMED: [read by his brother] “It never crossed my mind that I would end up being hauled half way across the world by the Americans to face torture in a place I had never been, Morocco.”

NARRATOR: U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.

CONDOLEEZZA RICE: The United States has not transported anyone and will not transport anyone to a country when we believe he will be tortured. Where appropriate, the United States seeks assurances that transferred persons will not be tortured.

NARRATOR: Again, CIA analyst Michael Scheuer.

MICHAEL SCHEUER: Ultimately diplomatic assurances are worthless. No country, whether it’s the United States or France or Egypt or Saudi Arabia, is going to let you inside their prisons to see how they’re handling their prisoners.

BINYAM MOHAMED: [read by his brother] “They would say, ‘There is this guy who would say you are a big man in Al Qaeda.’ I would say, ‘It is a lie.’ They would torture me. I would say, ‘OK it is true,’ they would say, ‘OK tell us more.’ I would say, ‘I don’t know more,’ they would torture me again. The guards would say, ‘America’s really pissed off at what happened, and they have said to the world, “either you are with us or against us.” We Moroccans say, “We are with you,” so we will do whatever they want.’”

NARRATOR: Once again, Michael Scheuer.

MICHAEL SCHEUER: We, as an intelligence service, because we are fortunate enough to have a large budget, can bring to the table, in dealing with third world intelligence services, money, modern computer equipment, armaments, other things that can attract their interest in working with us. All of those things are important, and they’re necessary to forge the relationship. But there are also elements which make you very cautious about the information you receive from those intelligence services. They are not going to want to give you, for example, information that might make you think the relationship isn't worth the money you’re investing in it.

NARRATOR: January 23rd, 2004, Macedonia to Afghanistan. After being beaten, Khaled El-Masri is shackled, blindfolded and pulled onto a waiting plane. He is given two injections and falls unconscious. He awakens shortly before arriving in a prison in Afghanistan

KHALED EL-MASRI: [translated] I was then brought to my cell. The next day, I was interrogated by a Lebanese man, also dressed in black, with a south Lebanese accent. And standing in the room were also six or seven disguised men, also all in black. And he shouted at me and said, “You are in a country with no laws. Do you know what this means? We can lock you up here for 20 years or bury you, nobody would know.”

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: We do not condone torture. I have never ordered torture. I will never order torture. The values of this country are such that torture is not a part of our soul and our being.

NARRATOR: August 2002, Morocco. Mohamed is tortured by “Marwan” and his masked accomplices.

BINYAM MOHAMED: [read by his brother] “They cut off my clothes with some kind of doctor's scalpel. I was totally naked. They took the scalpel to my right chest. It was only a small cut, maybe an inch. At first I just screamed. One of them took my penis in his hand and began to make a cut. He did it once and then stood still for maybe a minute, watched my reaction. It was an agony, crying, trying desperately to suppress my feelings, but I was screaming. There was blood all over. ‘If I told you I was going to teach you – I told you I was going to teach you who is the man,’ ‘Marwan’ eventually said. They cut all over my private parts. One of them said it would be better just to cut it off, as it would only breed terrorists. I suffered the razor treatment about once a month for the remaining time I was in Morocco. It became like a routine. They used to be very slow. Deliberately slow. One would cut me. They would take a rest. Then another would take his turn.

”In all 18 months I was there, I never went outside. I never saw the sun, not even once. I never saw any human being except the guards and my tormentors. When the Americans told me in Karachi, ‘Our friends the Arabs know how to deal with you,’ I didn’t really know what they were talking about. Now I understand why the Americans called the Moroccans ‘our Arab friends.’”

AMY GOODMAN: The brother of Binyam Mohamed reading from his detained brother's diary. An excerpt of the documentary, Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the ‘War on Terror’, produced by the human rights group, Witness.

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