Just seen on the news that Abu Qatada is being deported and sent to Al-Muwaaqer Jail in Jordon , funnily enough, that was the same jail that I was in . Its not too bad in there, but torture is quite common . I didnt get tortured, but I did see inside the torture rooms and I did hear other people getting tortured .
I was in Southern Jordon in Aquba which is along the coast from Eilat Israel and I went for a walk in the desert and I could see the Israeli watchtower , so I went for a closer look . I was about 100 metres away from the Israeli watch tower, and I noticed there were quite a lot on tin cans in the sand , I looked a bit closer at one of them and realised that it was a mine , they werent cans, but mines and I was stood in a minefield . I could still see my steps in the sand , so I followed my footsteps to get out the minefield As I got to the edge of the minefield I looked and and there was a Jordanian soldier with his rifle pointing at my head , I was going to ask him not to shoot, but then I thought that if he did intend to shoot, me asking him not to wouldnt change his mind, so I didnt ask .
An army truck pulled up and I was told to get in, which I did .I was blindfolded and taken to an army camp . They thought that I had just come from Israel and they though I was an Israeli spy . Israel and Jordon arent on friendly terms . I got searched and , I had been to Israel a few months beforehand , and they found some documents on me that were issued in Tel Aviv , Israel , they were convinced that I was an Israeli infiltrator and on a mission in Jordon .
I told them which hotel I was staying at , I thought that this would convince then That I hadnt just come from Israel , but they still had their suspicions . They gathered up my belongings from the hotel and bought them to the army camp .Some investigators came down from Amman and they took over , we drove up to Amman and I got taken to the top security jail , there were the Black September gang in there , bombers, Palestinian terrorists , most in there were on a life sentence . They told him how they carried out bomb attacks against Israelis and how many Israelis they had killed .
"What are you in here for " they asked.........Working without a Visa I told them ."Youre in a top security jail for working without a work Visa" the prisoners asked.........."errrrr yeah" . I was in a very precarious situation , if they found out the real reason why I was there, I would have been killed , they told me later "When you first came here, we thought you were an Israeli agent and we were going to kill you .