Mohamedou Ould Slahi and President Obama

remarkable story: Guantanamo Diary was originally composed by hand in 2005 from a cell at the infamous U.S. torture camp, which remains open despite President Obama promise to close it eight years ago, according to Rabble. It tells the remarkable story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian national who remains detained there despite a 2010 U.S. release order. At about the same time, a stunning memoir was published that paints another damning portrait of Canadian authorities from even before September 11, 2001. In English learned by listening to his kidnappers and torturers, Slahi elegantly relates a tale of human resilience under the most appalling conditions. The memoir would have been available sooner had it not been classified secret and subjected to a six-year legal battle over its release. His book is filled with wisdom, humour, and heartbreaking moments of despair produced by unending months of round-the-clock torture. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.