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Lawyers Declare Innocence of Waterboarding Victim

Gitmo detainee 'was never in al Qaeda'

CNN CNN Mar 18, 08 11:40 CDT
(Newser) - Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah isn’t a member of al Qaeda or the Taliban, his lawyers contend, and he’s never tried to harm American citizens. Held in CIA secret prisons and waterboarded, Zubaydah wasn’t given anything “that would satisfy even the most basic notions of due process,” his lawyers wrote in a deposition unsealed yesterday, arguing that the native Saudi should go free. More »

More about:  terrorism • Guantanamo Bay • CIA • Guantanamo prisoners • waterboarding • Abu Zubaydah • secret prisons

US 'Buried' Tortured Yemeni in Jail for Years: Rights Group

Prisoner finally freed without charge was hung upside down, beaten

Reuters Reuters Mar 14, 08 5:10 CDT
(Newser) - A Yemeni man was held by the US in secret prisons for nearly three years and subjected to torture after his capture in Iraq, a human rights group has charged in a condemnation of America's "cruel" defiance of international law. The man, Khaled al-Maqtari, was held in Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, secret jails in Afghanistan, and a CIA prison in an unknown location, where he was hung upside down by a chain, beaten and drenched with icy water, Reuters reports. More »

More about:  Iraq • George W. Bush • War on Terror • CIA • torture • Yemen • Abu Ghraib • Amnesty International • secret prisons

Military: Secret Prison Hidden at Gitmo

'High-value' suspects held in mystery prison within prison

Associated Press Associated Press Feb 7, 08 5:17 CST
(Newser) - Guantanamo Bay's top commander has confirmed the existence of a secret prison within the prison holding 15 "high-value" al-Qaeda detainees, AP reports. Prisoners at the mysterious Camp 7 include alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The camp's exact location is a secret, even to many military officials. Commanders insist Camp 7 detainees need to be kept away from other inmates and are so important to intelligence that the crew that maintains the facility is called "Task Force Platinum." More »

More about:  al-Qaeda • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • secret prisons

New Claims of Taped CIA Torture

Lawyers to present evidence to Senate panel

Time Time Feb 7, 08 4:38 CST
(Newser) - Evidence that another CIA detainee was videotaped allegedly being tortured by interrogators is expected to be presented to the Senate Intelligence Committee tomorrow, reports Time magazine. A former suburban Baltimore high school student underwent unspecified "systematic torture" that may have involved waterboarding in a secret CIA prison in 2003, his attorneys charge. Majid Khan, now 27 and being held at Guantanamo Bay, says he was grabbed by the CIA while traveling from his home in the US to visit his brother in Pakistan. More »

CIA Sat on Tapes of
Al Qaeda Questionings

Agency told court no recordings existed during trial of Moussaoui

McClatchy Newspapers McClatchy Newspapers Nov 14, 07 10:27 CST
(Newser) - Though it twice declared otherwise in court, the CIA has three video and audio recordings of high-level al Qaeda interrogations, federal prosecutors revealed yesterday. The defense team for convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui requested the tapes, but the CIA denied their existence. The tapes probably won’t undo Moussaoui’s conviction—the detainees don’t mention him—but could shed light on CIA interrogation techniques. More »

More about:  CIA • torture • terrorist • interrogation techniques • interrogation • secret prisons

CIA Finds No Escape From Secret Prisons

New report places 'black sites' first exposed in 2005 in Poland, Romania

Washington Post Washington Post Jan 1, 07 8:00 CST
(Newser) - The secret CIA prisons are back. The US cashed in on military alliances with an eager Poland and Romania to skirt civilian regulations on torture and tk, says a report by Europe's central human rights council released today. The report sheds new light on the so-called 'black sites,' which sparked an international outcry after the W ashington Post first exposed them in 2005. More »

More about:  Bush administration • CIA • NATO • human rights • secret prisons

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