User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/abusive presiding officer

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[edit] Saed Khatem Al Malki

Presiding Officer:

I want to help you. I am not your enemy; none of us are your enemy. Your story sounds like about 500 others. Everybody has their passport stolen; everybody is in Afghanistan and Pakistan doing charity work; Karzai soldiers are getting shot, American Soldiers are dying, but nobody is killing them? Nobody is in the fight yet all of our soldiers are still dying? I have had people sitting in that very chair who've had the identical story that you have, who have told this board that they made a mistake, they shouldn't have taken up the jihad, and they were sorry; we sent them home. If you're out of the fight, you go home. But your story doesn't ring true. Help us help you.

What kind of help do you want to know [sic] ? This is my true story if you want to believe it or not. I never used weapons against the United States or any allies.
Presiding Officer:

I believe that you didn't have a weapon, but selling sugar and material to the enemy, aiding and abetting the enemy, is just as bad.
Al Malki:

I sold it to the Muslim people who live in the villages. Are those people your enemy?
Presiding Officer:

Logistics people are just as important to the waging of war as people who shoot bullets.
Al Malki:

Do you mean the poor people, the women and children, and the people in the village?
Presiding Officer:

Did you hear about the jets that flew into the World Trade Center?
Al Malki:

Why don't you listen to me as I am listening to you?
Presiding Officer:

Did you hear about it?
Al Malki:

Yes.
Presiding Officer:

Most of them came from Saudi Arabia; one month after that, you decide to go to Afghanistan.
Al Malki:

That's not right. I went before.
Board Member:

He went to Afghanistan in January 2001.
Presiding Officer:

My mistake.
Al Malki:

Just listen to me as I am listening to you and don't go deep into false things.
Presiding Officer:

I misspoke. It was January 2001.
Al Malki:

I left my family and salary and I expected the journey to be months.
Presiding Officer:

Did you have some kind of wonder [sic] lust? I've been to Saudi Arabi; it's a beautiful country. Afghanistan and Pakistan are not places that would be on most people's travel list.
Al Malki:

I didn't go like a tourist for good views; I went just to help.
Presiding Officer:

Did you know that we're fighting a war?
Al Malki:

I don't know and there wasn't any fight between the United States and Afghanistan or Pakistan. All the countries I went through, there was no fighting with the United States.