Reference: 24-73031061-0129-PH-1

Duration: 16:10
Source Language: Amharic
Translator:

Participants
Inmate: Inmate [Inmate]
Unidentified Male 1: UM1
Unidentified Male 2: UM2
Unidentified Female 1: UF1
Unidentified Female 2: UF2
Operator: Operator

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Operator: Please enter PAC number followed by pound [Dialing] Sharing of PAC
numbers is against BOP policy, and subject to disciplinary action. After the
tone, please say, “United States of America.”
Inmate:
Operator: The cost of this call is $0 per minute. The maximum length of this call will be
15 minutes. Your call is being processed. [Ringing] This call is from a federal
prison. You will not be charged for this call. This call is from//
Inmate: Munir
operator: This call will be recorded and subject to monitoring at any time. To accept this
call, press 5. To block this call and all future calls press 7. To reject this call,
hang up now. You may begin speaking now.
UF1: F1: Hello, my Munir.
Inmate: M: Hey, hey, Asalamalekum mom.
UF1: F: How are you doing?
Inmate M: What's up, what's up?
UF1: F: [inaudible audio]
Inmate M: [laughing] I told you I would start calling you every day [inaudible audio].
UF1: F: I started working.
Inmate M: I was having peanut butter with milk.
UF1: F: Peanut butter?
Inmate M: Yes, with milk.
UF1: F: [inadudible audio]
Inmate M: Huh?
UF1: F: How was your day?
Inmate M: My day was okay, alhamdulillah. It was okay, sweety. What about you?
[inaudible audio] How was your day?
UF1: F: My day was okay. Kind of busy repairing the furnace [inaudible audio].
Inmate M: I know! You're busy at work and busy at home.
Inmate
UF1: F: You have to change the furnace below every three months. Because I was
busy at work, it's been five months since I changed it. Oh my god, it looks like
milk.
Inmate M: What happens if you don't change it?
UF1: F: It brings in bad air.
Inmate M: Into the house?
UF1: F: Burnt air comes from it. You have to change it.
Inmate M: Didn't you get sick?
UF1: Burnt air comes out. But the chamber is good.
Inmate Okay, okay, okay.
UF1: F: Hm.
Inmate M: Okay, okay, okay. I got you, I got you, Mom.
UF1: F: Hm.M: you are always busy. You are busy at work and you are busy at
home.
UF1: F: Busy Mama.
Inmate M: I know you're a superhero, a super supermom.
UF1: F: Super busy.
Inmate M: I know.
UF1: F: Super super busy mama.
Inmate M: It's okay, you're going to have a good baking shift.
UF1: F: Good [inaudible audio].
UF1: F: In some villages, the government ordered a dead man's body to be dug out
to make a road. [inaudible audio] They told him after they buried him while he
was trying to dig up the other [inaudible audio]. After he dug it up [inaudible
audio].
Inmate M: What, what? After they dig it out, what?
UF1: F: A dead body was buried on the road, then the road becomes [inaudible
audio].
Inmate M: Snake?
UF1: F: It was buried there. You know it's supposed to be buried after it's dead?
Inmate M: I can't hear you, Honey. The [inaudible audio] of the phone is low.
UF1: F: Okay, so they said. What about now?
Inmate M: It's still kind of low.
UF1: F: How about now?
Inmate M: I don't know, this phone is still low.
UF1: F: How about now?
Inmate M: Okay, better.
UF1: F: Do you remember? In Egypt or some other place, you know, sometimes
there are a lot of cemeteries on the roadside? They ordered to removal of the
bodies to make the road. Then after they dig it. When he lifted the body of that
man there was still the same body in a row.
M: yes
UF1: F: the same as it from one
Inmate M: no decaying no nothing
UF1: F: no decaying or else
Inmate M: then they took it to his father, he died when he was 20. They said his dad
was alive. Maybe his father does [inaudible audio] or something. So when they
got to his father. Do you know what he says? He never missed Solat. He
always does Ruku in the mosque. He was just like a good kid.
Inmate M: yes.
UF1: F: do you hear me?
Inmate M: yes.
UF1: F: but still now its body is the same, it is a true story.
Inmate M: yes
UF1: F: it’s news, they announced it now
Inmate M: yes
UF1: F: even if he was buried for nearly 30 years it isn’t damaged, the same
Inmate M: I know Mashallah
UF1: F: they said like, he never missed Solat. He left to go to the Mosque. Most of
the time he was praying in the mosque. Just like a gentle kid. [inaudible audio]
True story
Inmate M: I know mashallah, it’s a beautiful story
UF1: F: true story
Inmate M: mashallah [inaudible audio]
UF1: F: I know hoho. It was good news my Munir.
Inmate M: [inaudible audio] in a couple of [inaduible audio] was kind of reminds me,
you know Allah said a couple of times [inaudible audio] in Quran [inaudible
audio] you know what that means?
UF1: F: [inaudible audio] I think its [inaudible audio]
Inmate M: [inaudible audio] Just like the end, by the result
UF1: F: big rank
Inmate M: yeah yeah?
UF1: F: big rank
Inmate M: yeah you can say like big rank or just like ending. You know ending. The
final result big rank [inaudible audio] after the world ends, [inadudible audio]
after all the man moved to the grave, [inaudible audio] to heaven or hell. So,
Allah told you [inaudible audio]. You know so when you said that, you remind
me of the Ayah.
UF1: F: oh!
Inmate M: the ending, just like Aqiba is ending. The ending
UF1: F: oh! Ending
Inmate M: yes the ending of heaven or hell. Because in the end, the ending is
[inaudible audio] all human beings. The end is two heaven or hell.
UF1: F: yes, hmm
Inmate M: we have two endings. Which one do you want? All men have only one
choice //
Operator: This call is from a federal prison.
Inmate M: but Allah tells you [inaudible audio] the final good [inaudible audio] means
 heaven. So that’s when you told me that little boy, his ending was good. And
that is a good sign.
UF1: F: I know
Inmate M: yeah.
UF1: F: they say he never missed Solat. Just like the dad said, he was a good kid and
like that.
Inmate M: inshalah [inaudible audio] you have to be nice. No more bad.
UF1: F: good did
Inmate M: yes good did, good did, good did [inaudible audio]
UF1: F: [inaudible audio]
Inmate M: your [inaudible audio] is heaven. [inaudible audio]
UF1: F: yeah [inaudible audio]
Inmate M: don’t kick [inaudible audio]
UF1: F: [laughing] What if they put me in with you?
Inmate M: yes don’t go to [inaudible audio]
UF1: F: what if they put me in with you? Then when you come out I have to get in
there. It's not good.
Inmate M: am going to come home. Saying Mama Mama where are you? My Munir //
UF1: F: [inaudible audio]
Inmate M: [laughing] Is that so?
UF1: F: shoe
Inmate M: you have to be good. [inaudible audio]
UF1: F: almost [inaudible audio] am fine
Inmate M: for the most part you got everything?
UF1: F: I have from work, I took a lot of food there.
Inmate M: what?
UF1: F: [inaudible audio] Because there is no in Asmera like people getting their
body wounded sleeping in bed, I have a lot of medication for those people.
[inaudible audio] Now it's full almost full.
Inmate M: yes.
UF1: F: I was watching the pic you sent me.
Inmate M: Did you meet Amir, did he come?
UF1: F: no Amir didn’t come. It's in a phone.
Inmate M: ok I got you I got you
UF1: F: so I was watching you my Munir.
Inmate M: [laughing]
UF1: F: This is Munir, this is Ferdos, then I returned to you and said this is Munir,
just like that.
Inmate M: [laughing]
UF1: F: it's like that my Munir.
Inmate M: I know I know my mama [inaudible audio] you had swag in a picture.
Swag
UF1: UF1: F: swag [laughing] I was wearing high hill shoes, if not I look short.
Inmate M: [laughing]
UF1: F: they say [inaudible audio] high hills, sinners
Inmate M: I know, they did it deliberately so that you didn’t become tall.
UF1: F: no no we swapped pants with Ferdos, they said you can’t wear kakis, and
she said ‘Come here let me help you change” and I wore her pants.
Inmate M: I know you told me.
UF1: F: then again, he told her that it was sweatpants. Don’t wear it like that unless
jeans. Those guys have many complications. What about black pants? Is black
pants, ok?
Inmate M: black pants?
UF1: F: I think jeans are fine.
Inmate M: yeah, jeans are fine.
UF1: F: ok that’s fine l will go for the jeans.
Inmate M: yeah you got to wear jeans.
UF1: F: it's their complication.
Inmate M: ha?
UF1: F: hmm
Inmate M: what do you say, Mom?
Inmate M: what do you say, sweety?
UF1: F: I said it's their complication.
Inmate M: I know I know.
UF1: F: but it's ok.
Inmate M: it's ok.
UF1: F: alahamdulilah its for every body [inaudible audio]
Inmate M: what?
UF1: UF1: F: mashalah mashalah. “how is Munir?” I told tehm mashalah mashalah he is
fine.
Inmate M: yes
UF1: F: he is fine mashalah
Inmate M: she got fat. She is fat.
UF1: F: hmm
Inmate M: she got bigger.
UF1: F: yeah inshallah she is going to come back //
Operator: This call is from a federal prison
UF1: F: she is near my Munir.
Inmate M: I know I know
UF1: F: hmm
Inmate M: I know [inaudible audio]
UF1: F: Munir
Inmate M: can you hear me?
UF1: F: yeah you close.
Inmate M: yeah we are good
UF1: F: you are close only a little time
UF1: do they serve you a good dinner?
Inmate what?
UF1: F: Did they feed you a good dinner?
Inmate M: what's ok [laughing]
Inmate M: I came back and I made something. I don’t know why they seldom give us
a lot. Sometimes I don’t know
UF1: F: even if you are few.
Inmate M: no there are too many of us here. 15 or 16 hundred. Sometimes they do,
sometimes they don’t. today I made rice with fish.
UF1: F: that’s ok.
Inmate M: then I ate peanut butter.
UF1: F: that’s ok.
UF1: F: you drink water and have a good sleep.
Inmate M: yeah yeah exactly. yeah Sweety//
UF1: F: what time do you wake up in the morning?
Inmate M: around 6
UF1: F: you don’t sleep after that?
Inmate M: no then I go back to sleep.
UF1: F: then what time do you wake up again?
Inmate M: 9:30 sweety
UF1: F: who is with you now, your roommate
Inmate M: there is one Muslim.
UF1: F: is he young?
Inmate M: no around 40 years.
UF1: F: is he nice or he is crazy?
Inmate M: what?
UF1: F: is he nice or he is crazy?
Inmate M: he is good.
UF1: F: what pleasant?
UF1: F: is he senior or fresh?
Inmate M: maybe [inaudible audio]
UF1: F: oh! He is converse?
Inmate M: yes
UF1: F: is he devoted Muslims or like the fake one?
Inmate M: he does his Ruku. He is ok.
UF1: F: oh! If he does his Ruku that ok, the main thing is Solat.
Inmate M: yes yes. Momy Sweet. I love you. Have a good night. I will call you
tomorrow, ok?
UF1: F: ok my Munir Sweet. Bye Honey
Inmate M: bye bye
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