Tag: Abu Zubaydah

Abu Zubaydah, a man once called al-Qaeda’s “chief of operations” appears to be at the center of an unraveling of the official myth behind al Qaeda. After his capture in early 2002, Zubaydah was...

The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration had made about "high-value" detainee Abu Zubaydah, a Guantánamo prisoner who at one time was said to have planned the 9/11...

Bravo!! Are we actually experiencing the return of investigative journalism in some corporate press? And of course, huge thanks to the ACLU (who needs support) for their invaluable work in once again forcing the release of these transcripts. See also "CIA Mistaken on 'High-Value' Detainee, Document Shows", By Peter Finn and Julie Tate, Washington Post Staff Writers: "An al-Qaeda associate [Abu Zubaida] captured by the CIA and subjected to harsh interrogation techniques said his jailers later told him they had mistakenly thought he was the No. 3 man in the organization's hierarchy and a partner of Osama bin Laden, according to newly released excerpts from a 2007 hearing. "They told me, 'Sorry, we discover that you are not Number 3, not a partner, not even a fighter,' " said Abu Zubaida, speaking in broken English, according to the new transcript of a Combatant Status Review Tribunal held at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. ... Mohammed, who was waterboarded 183 times, appears to have invoked the U.S. Constitution to protest his treatment. He described the response he received: "You are not American, and you are not on American soil. So you cannot ask about the Constitution." Mohammed also said he lied in response to questions about bin Laden's location. "Where is he? I don't know," Mohammed said. "Then he torture me. Then I said yes, he is in this area." ...