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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Attorneys defending Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo prisoner designated as the first 'high-value' detainee by the Bush administration, have finally gained access to three volumes of diaries he wrote while he was in the custody of the CIA and brutally tortured by agency interrogators and contractors at a secret 'black site' prison."

http://www.truthout.org/torture-diaries-drawings-and-special-prosecutor58108



US Recants Claims on "High-Value" Detainee Abu Zubaydah

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration had made about 'high-value' detainee Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo prisoner who at one time was said to have planned the 9/11 attacks and was the No. 2 and 3 person in al-Qaeda. Additionally, Justice has backed away from claims intelligence officials working in the Clinton administration had also leveled against Zubaydah, specifically, that he was directly involved in the planning of the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa as well as the 'Millennium' bomb plot in Los Angeles."

http://www.truthout.org/government-quietly-recants-bush-era-claims-about-%22high-value%22-detainee-zubdaydah58151



Psychologists Notes May Indicate Zubaydah Torture Experimentation

Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout: "One interesting nugget found in newly released CIA documents related to the destruction of 92 torture tapes concerns the unreported existence of psychologist's notes as a standard part of the interrogation protocol," which may indicate that high-value detainee Abu Zubadyah was the subject of human experimentation.

http://www.truthout.org/psychologists-notes-indicate-zubaydah-torture-experimentation58855

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Not Just Guantanamo

U.S. Torturing Muslim Pre-trial Detainee in New York City

By Bill Quigley

Today in New York City, the U.S. is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25130.htm

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Abu Zubaydah: Tortured for nothing

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

04/05/10

The story of Abu Zubaydah — a Saudi-born Palestinian whose real name is Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn — has always been absolutely central to the ‘war on terror.’ Seized in a house raid in Faisalabad, Pakistan, on March 28, 2002, he was immediately touted as ‘al-Qaeda’s chief of operations and top recruiter,’ who would be able to ‘provide the names of terrorists around the world and which targets they planned to hit.’ He then pretty much vanished off the face of the earth for four and a half years...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1004b.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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