World-News

Mark Mazzetti, The New York Times: "Senior White House officials played a central role in deliberations in the spring of 2002 about whether the Central Intelligence Agency could legally use harsh interrogation techniques while questioning an operative of Al Qaeda, Abu Zubaydah, according to newly released documents."

https://www.truthout.org/092508K

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Rice Written Statement Confirms Participation in Torture Meetings
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/09/25-4

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Abu Zubaydah and the futility of torture

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

03/30/09

Reinforcing claims made over the last few years — by FBI agents, by author Ron Suskind, and by myself — that the supposed senior al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah was less significant than he was made out to be, the Washington Post ran a front-page story yesterday, in which, drawing on interviews with ‘former senior government officials who closely followed [his] interrogations,’ Peter Finn and Joby Warrick reminded the world that Zubaydah was not actually a senior al-Qaeda operative and had no information about the inner workings of al-Qaeda.

https://www.fff.org/comment/com0903m.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The truth about Abu Zubaydah

The Bush administration's false claim that my client was a top al-Qaida official has led to his imprisonment and torture.

https://snipurl.com/eylgv


From Information Clearing House



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