from mauritania, i would say.ship, you know, where people couldn't talk. we couldn't even talk — if you talk, you go to prison, you risked your freedom. and i didn't know how to break free. and there was so much propaganda about the way that afghanis had taken up arms and risen up against the regime, the communist regime, and i was infatuated about the idea. absolutely. and i don't regret that, at all. i say this. but today i am a mature man and i know that violence is not the way. i believe in peaceful revolutions, in peaceful change. and at the same time, i think that people who espouse extremist ideology have a place in open society and they should express themselves and they should not be put in prison because because they say they want sharia law, or anything. you can only put people in prison if they commit violence. we're almost out of time. one last question about the future of guantanamo bay. you and other former inmates have written to presidentjoe biden asking him to close guantanamo bay, it was a promi

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