Majid Khan, a “high-value detainee” at Guantánamo Bay, was released last week after two decades of social isolation.
BELIZE CITY — On his first day of freedom, the former Guantánamo Bay prisoner Majid Khan prayed without anyone watching him for the first time in two decades.
He ate a lunch of fresh fish from the Caribbean with his new hosts, fumbled with his first smartphone, sipped a nonalcoholic piña colada with his lawyers and held a real-time video call with family in Pakistan and the United States from his adopted homeland, Belize.
Mr. Khan, 42, is the first prisoner to be freed from Guantánamo Bay who had been held there as a “high-value detainee,” the intelligence community’s phrase for a former prisoner of the Bush administration’s secret torture program of “enhanced interrogation.”
When he emerged last week from two decades of social isolation that began in years of solitary confinement, plans and ambitions and observations spilled from his mouth, at times in random bits of rapid-fire conversation.
“I want to go back to work. Don’t tell me to chill out, man,” Mr. Khan said, excitedly.
He thought he might want to run a restaurant. He definitely wants to run for public office.
“Tell the prime minister,” he quoted himself as telling Eamon Courtenay, the foreign minister, moments after he and his tabby cat, Cheetah, landed in Belize on a flight from the U.S. military base in Cuba.
By the way, Mr. Khan added, he already had the numbers of two Belizean imams on speed...
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