Gitmo Inmate's Lawyer Urges US on Photos

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By ANDREW O. SELSKY
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7142242,00.html

A lawyer for a Guantanamo prisoner has urged U.S. authorities to preserve CIA photos that would prove his client was tortured when the spy agency allegedly sent him to Morocco for questioning about al-Qaida links.

The request is urgent because of the disclosure that the CIA destroyed videotaped interrogations of two suspected terrorists now held at Guantanamo, lawyer Clive Stafford Smith said.

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CIA spokesman George Little said in an e-mail Monday the agency does not comment publicly on specific cases or allegations. He acknowledged that rendition - the secret transfer of prisoners from U.S. control into the hands of foreign governments, some with a history of torture - is used ``on a very limited scale.''

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The lawyer said he will push for prosecution of the U.S. intelligence officers for being ``a party to these savage events.''