#readwise # S4 E49: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques | Mohamedou Ould Slahi  ## Metadata - Author: [[The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast]] - Full Title: S4 E49: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques | Mohamedou Ould Slahi - URL: https://www.airr.io/episode/615b949eb5721500119acce9 ## Highlights - I was beaten only two times during eight months, but the thing that hurt me so much was when they took me to listen to torture sessions. They blindfolded me, they put me in a room, they start torturing this person for me to break. ([Time 1:14:48](https://www.airr.io/quote/616bbc3f3b174903fa6a85cc)) - They drove me to the airport, I could hear the roar of the engines because I was on the runway, and all of a sudden someone start to cut open my clothes with very sharp scissors, and then they stripped me completely naked, and they put diapers on me. I figured I'm not going home, and I'm not going to another prison in Jordan, I'm going to the US. (01:34:25) I almost died [later, on the plane] because I couldn't pee in the diaper. I kept squeezing but my head refused to pee. ([Time 1:23:19](https://www.airr.io/quote/616bbc3f3b174903fa6a85bb)) - They took me to this prison, and they started torture [in] that prison, but it's not like very heavy. They just [kept] me on my knees for very long hours and they put like strobe light over my head for hours. ([Time 1:35:32](https://www.airr.io/quote/616bbc7b3b174903fa6ab7f7)) - [The] first night they stripped me naked, and they put me in some clothes and I sat, and I peed peed peed peed, like there's no tomorrow. Then I felt so good, I didn't care what they did to me, because now I peed. Because, now I felt I'm a free person, I'm surviving now. ([Time 1:36:18](https://www.airr.io/quote/616bbc3f3b174903fa6a8605)) - They put me back in my cell, and then they let me lie down, and then the guard kept banging every one hour or so, they would come and bang at my door. And it's so cold you cannot sleep, because it's freezing cold in the cell, and I didn't have proper clothes. ([Time 2:02:10](https://www.airr.io/quote/616bc1283b174903fa6eff36)) - Later on they made very efficient methods. […] Every hour they wake me up and they make me drink water, every hour. Wake you up, make you drink water. You can never sleep when someone does this to you because you will go to the bathroom continuously. You would be half asleep, going to the bathroom, half asleep, going to the bathroom, half asleep going to the bathroom, over and over and over. The only method they didn't do to me, and the guard told me about it because I confessed, was shower. They told me [they put you] under the shower, and they turned on the shower 24/7. Uh, I wasn't looking forward to that. ([Time 2:02:54](https://www.airr.io/quote/616bc1283b174903fa6eff4b))