CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach interrogators torture techniques
Source: The Guardian
CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach interrogators torture techniques
Newly declassified documents reveal Ammar al-Baluchi was repeatedly slammed against a wall while naked until all trainees received certification
Julian Borger in Washington
Mon 14 Mar 2022 14.58 EDT
A detainee at a secret CIA detention site in Afghanistan was used as a living prop to teach trainee interrogators, who lined up to take turns at knocking his head against a plywood wall, leaving him with brain damage, according to a US government report.
The details of the torture of Ammar al-Baluchi are in a 2008 report by the CIAs inspector general, newly declassified as part of a court filing by his lawyers aimed at getting him an independent medical examination.
Baluchi, a 44-year-old Kuwaiti, is one of five defendants before a military tribunal on Guantánamo Bay charged with participation in the 9/11 plot, but the case has been in pre-trial hearings for 10 years, mired in a dispute over legal admissibility of testimony obtained after torture.
According to the inspector generals report, the CIA was aware that the 2003 rendition of the detainee, Ammar al-Baluchi, from Pakistani custody to the black site north of Kabul was conducted extra-legally, because at the time he was in Pakistani jurisdiction and no longer represented a terrorist threat.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/mar/14/cia-black-site-detainee-training-prop-torture-techniques
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Chainfire
(17,310 posts)I really hate to know that we have soldiers who would not tell their officers, "Hell No!"
czarjak
(11,196 posts)Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)And the American war criminals got away with it.