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MICHAEL LEHNERT: Marine engineers, Navy Seabees, some Jamaican steel workers that just happened to be down there doing a project. LATIF: And he pulled in help from wherever he could get it. MICHAEL LEHNERT: So we essentially took down every fence that wasn't absolutely needed on the naval base. MICHAEL LEHNERT: The real challenge, of course, was finding the materials to build a facility to incarcerate these detainees. MICHAEL LEHNERT: It's a real tough position to be in, Latif. So what Mike found when he landed was a naval base that could barely make enough water and electricity to support itself. And so in 1964, the Castro government basically cut the base off from all the island's utilities. The Cuban government hated the fact that this base was there, that their hands were bound by this treaty that Teddy Roosevelt had basically forced on them. LATIF: The US had gotten the land in a 1903 treaty with Cuba and they'd put a small naval base at one end. MICHAEL LEHNERT: With the center of the horseshoe being the water. MICHAEL LEHNERT: Think of it as a horseshoe. LATIF: Guantanamo Bay at that point was 45 square miles of mostly swamp. MICHAEL LEHNERT: Personally, I didn't feel it was a particularly good place to send them. MICHAEL LEHNERT: Well, the first thing you do is you take a look at the facilities that are there. LATIF: And what's the first thing you do when you get there? LATIF: He and a team of people flew the two and a half hours to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. MICHAEL LEHNERT: So we left the following day. MICHAEL LEHNERT: Well, it - it was tough, but it was pretty clear from the guidance that our job was to tell the administration how we were going to do it, not whether or not it was a good idea. LATIF: He was told, "You have four days to build an entire prison. So ours came on Friday afternoon, and essentially it said that I was to form a Joint Task Force, deploy to Guantanamo and build the first 100 cells and do all of that within the first 96 hours. Now we always watched Fridays, because Secretary Rumsfeld generally signed deployment orders on Friday. The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld sent us a deployment order. So it became pretty obvious that the administration was looking for places to send them. MICHAEL LEHNERT: We have a situation where the weather is getting bad. LATIF: Reports start to come back that the forces don't have enough places to keep all the prisoners. MICHAEL LEHNERT: And receiving reports that they're capturing a number of prisoners. MICHAEL LEHNERT: We're watching what's happening in Afghanistan. LATIF: He's on this base in charge of lots of Marines and sailors, when. I was - had my first command as a Brigadier General. I think the place we should start, although we might flash backwards, is January, 2002, when you get an order. LATIF: Oh okay, well that’s also very - I’ll tell you, that’s very comforting to hear. MICHAEL LEHNERT: Well, I will also assure you that all of the Latifs I've met I did not lock up. MICHAEL LEHNERT: But I've had some with this long e at the end, that's why I was looking for the distinction. LATIF: Retired General Mike is the guy who built the prison at Guantanamo Bay. LATIF: Do you prefer I call you General Lehnert? Or how - how do I - how should I refer to you? And that's the story that brings us to this guy. LATIF: But this episode and the next are about the reverse, what we ended up doing to him. MICHAEL LEHNERT: Well, we'll do a virtual handshake.
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SUZIE: I didn't tell him we wouldn't see each other face to face. LATIF: So far, this story has been about one man: Abdul Latif Nasser, and what he may or may not have done to us. He was very excited that I was talking to you. It's not a - Radiolab is sending you, right?ĭAD: But you'll be - you'll be able to see the prisoner?ĭAD: Okay, okay. ĭAD: Mom, he's going on official business. I don't like - I guess I know it's your job and. LATIF: So on Sunday, I'm going to Guantanamo. MOM: Yeah, we are both on different lines. LATIF: I’m Latif Nasser, and this is The Other Latif. And we will keep fighting until we destroy them totally. We did not come here to fight Afghans, we came here to fight Americans. JON LEE ANDERSON: Nasir Abdul Latif stared at me directly with his pale brown eyes. GARY BERNTSEN: It was easy to take a bloody bus, but for some reason he decides to go south with Bin Laden. LATIF: Did he go to Afghanistan to fight? He was indoctrinated, and - and then sponsored to go to Sudan. SHELBY SULLIVAN BEVIS: Yeah, he was definitely indoctrinated. LATIF NASSER: Before we start, this episode has some graphic descriptions that may not be suitable for all listeners.