Guantnamo detainee to testify on 'unspeakable torture' by CIA agents

[Solly Mack]

Abu Zubaydah, the Guantánamo detainee who endured some of the most brutal CIA interrogation techniques in the post-9/11 era including waterboarding, has waived his immunity in order to testify at an upcoming hearing at which he will seek to expose “the unspeakable torture of an innocent man”.


Zubaydah lost an eye while being held captive by the CIA in Thailand, at a time when he underwent extreme “enhanced interrogation” techniques that have been denounced as torture. His interrogators pushed him so hard, including sleep deprivation and physical abuse, that at one point they feared he might die, and sent a cable instructing CIA bosses that if he died in the course of an interrogation he should be cremated immediately.

In a separate cable to CIA headquarters, interrogators said that if he survived the experience they should be protected from recriminations by ensuring that he was “in isolation and incommunicado for the remainder of his life”.

The CIA claimed that Zubaydah was the third highest-ranking member of al-Qaida and that he had been involved in “every major terrorist operation carried out by al-Qaida”. But those descriptions of him were later debunked, and he was found to have been a relatively lowly operative.

It's not in me to forget. I can't. I won't.

[zipplewrath]

1. You mean

You won't "have the back of those that were operating under the four corners of the official policy" at the time? That may not put you in good stead around here.

[Xipe Totec]

2. WTF?

Please add a sarcasm thingie to your post, or in some way explain why you think we support torture at DU.

[zipplewrath]

6. Do you know who said that?

Do you know who said that? Do you know how well it goes over around here when one criticizes said person?

[Solly Mack]

3. Expressing my thoughts on the U.S. government's torture program under Bush is not something

I have ever shied away from - not on DU or anywhere else. My thoughts on the lack of prosecutions isn't unknown to anyone that has ever paid any attention to my posts.

Whether or not people like it isn't a concern of mine.

I'm against torture. I'm against allowing war criminals to go free.

I'm not alone in this.

I'm pretty sure that everyone who has been around DU for any length of time knows that about me.

I know the DU administrators know it.

[sharedvalues]

4. Such a low point for America

These two guys should go to prison
https://news.vice.com/article/two-cia-contractors-are-being-sued-for-torture-and-human-experimentation

James Elmer Mitchell


John "Bruce" Jessen

[Solly Mack]

5. Yes, they should.

Quite a few that should be in prison right now.