Laid Saidi
Laid Saidi (born c. 1963) is an Algerian who was imprisoned for 16 months in a CIA black site in Afghanistan called the "Salt Pit".Saidi claims to have spent months in the dark prison prior to his detention in the Salt Pit.He was apprehended because of a taped telephone conversation in which the word tayrat (تايرات), meaning "tires" in colloquial Arabic, was mistaken for a similarly sounding word, Tayrat (طايرات, pronounced with a slightly different "T" sound) meaning "airplanes.He was arrested in Tanzania in July 2003 and rendered to Afghanistan via Malawi, where he was "handed over to Malawian authorities in plainclothes who were accompanied by two middle-aged Caucasian men wearing jeans and t-shirts.[2] American officials assert that they stopped using this form of torture after it led to the deaths of two Afghans, Habibullah and Dilawar in Bagram, in December 2002.