Austalia’s Sunday Herald has just printed a significant article on the death
of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, “Curveball,” on the basis of whose tortured
testimony justification for the Iraq War was based. Al-Libi had been visited
by a human rights group representative immediately before his “suicide”
in a Libyan prison. To date, this incredibly important story is strikingly under-reported in the corporate American media, even though we now know “[t]he fact he lied ‘to avoid torture’ was verified by ‘a bipartisan report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,’ according to a press release Monday on Al-Libi’s death by Human Rights Watch (HRW).” We have also posted below excellent reporting from Jeff Kaye, blogger at Firedoglake.com. (Sincere thanks go out to so many great, GREAT investigative reporters like this now blogging tirelessly so we get at least some glimpse of what’s going on in the world!!) And for more information, we previously posted Andy Worthington and Brad Friedman‘s important reporting
on this.