and Pakistani intelligence agents in Pakistan in late March 2002.

fqDpmIThujīorn in Saudi Arabia, Zubaydah moved to the West Bank in Israeli-occupied Palestine as a teenager. ? Previously unseen drawings show the various torture methods used by the CIA against Abu Zubaydah, including physical/sexual assault, waterboarding, and more.Ĭontrary to their claims, the report details how the FBI was complicit in his and other detainees' torture. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, the publication states. “These sources, together with the report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, provide the most complete - and compelling - account to date of America’s torture program” in the years after the Sept. James Mitchell, a chief architect of the torture regime, who both wrote a book on EITs and testified in hearings on Guantánamo.” sought to hide with its calculated destruction of video recordings of torture conducted by its agents,” and “dovetail with the recent accounts of Dr. The report notes that Zubaydah’s drawings “viscerally convey the brutal reality the C.I.A.

“Despite the efforts of the federal government, particularly the Central Intelligence Agency, to conceal evidence of the actual operation of the ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ (EITs) deployed on detainees in dark sites and at Guantánamo, a steady drumbeat of disclosures has provided an unparalleled view into this disgraceful episode in the nation’s history,” the report states. The report - “ American Torturers: FBI and CIA Abuses at Dark Sites and Guantánamo” - is based on sketches and descriptions by Zubaydah and other War on Terror torture victims and was led by Seton Hall University law professor Mark Denbeaux and University of California, San Francisco psychiatry professor Jess Ghannam, with the help of Seton Hall law students. “black sites” and Guantánamo Bay - offers new insight into torture suffered by a man caught up in a case of mistaken identity. (Joint Task Force Guantanamo, Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0)Ī report published this week featuring previously unreleased drawings by Abu Zubaydah - a 52-year-old Saudi who has been imprisoned by the United States for more than 20 years at C.I.A. The guard tower at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp Delta in Cuba, 2010.

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