amy: we will talk with tahar rahim in a moment. and come back to this discussion about the new feature found that has just been released called "the mauritanian." stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. i want to go to another clip from "the mauritanian," when mohamedou ould slahi's character meets with his lawyers nancy hollander and terry duncan, played by shailene woodley and jodie foster. >> iean wh i say. the is neviden. i trust you to trt me. i'm innont. i'm innont. wh do you ed to seto belie this? >> dsn't matt what we believ it matrs whawe can pve. juslike my terrogats. >> we know y are innoct. we do. but weave tove tha ande can't do tt unlesse see t legationagainst u. th is all are askg for. >> wn you you wt to sue the govement, whatoes that mean? here will behree namesn the wsuit. e unitedtateof ameri, dona rumsfel and geoe w. bu. >> [lahter] sure y not? amy: that is a clip from "the mauritanian" featuring jodie foster and shailene woodley as th

amna: slahi, played by actor tahar rahim, was picked up by mauritanian police two months after 9/11.ved to guantanamo bay, one of detained by the u.s. as enemy hundreds combatants. >> i think there were people who were hungering for the message, we got them. for those who think about guantanamo and see it as men in orange jumpsuits on their knees, the message we got them was very raw at the time. amna: the new york times' carol rosenberg has covered the prison for years. >> guantanamo is more than a place, in some ways. it is the idea that you can pick people up and move them halfway around the globe, and hold them as indefinite detainees in this war on terror. in this war that has nobody on the other side to end it. amna: the u.s. accused slahi of recruiting the 9/11 hijackers and supporting al qaida. they cited a phone call he once received from osama bin laden's spiritual advisor -- a relative of slahi's. slahi, who fought with the u.s.-backed rebels in afghanistan in the 1990's, says he never supported al qaeda, and he didn't know that phone call was from bin laden's satellite ph