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Find out what the world’s leading thinkers, politicians and cultural figures really think, as they talk about their lives for thirty minutes on The Interview.

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They explore topical issues, personal motivation and interviewee's hopes and fears. The style is informal and conversational, but at times searching and combative when required.

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The Interview Archive: The Interview with Binyam Mohamed

20/03/2009

The Interview with Binyam Mohamed

BBC World Service - The Interview Archive, The Interview with Binyam Mohamed

This week on the Interview Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed talks to Jon Manel.

Interesting, prominent people interviewed at length by the BBC.

Binyam Mohamed is just getting used to freedom after nearly seven years in detention -- four of them at the Guantanamo Bay. 

During that time he was also held in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Morocco where he says he was tortured. 

Born in Ethiopia, Binyam sought asylum in the UK and in 2001 he became a Muslim and travelled from Britain to Afghanistan. 

He says he was there to visit a good Islamic country. The Americans say he was there as a terrorist. 

This week on The Interview Binyam Mohammed tells his story to Jon Manel.

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