[Vision2020] Fwd: CNN - Gitmo detainees said abuse sparked lies, transcripts reveal

[Joe Campbell]

> Subject: CNN - Gitmo detainees said abuse sparked lies, transcripts  
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> Gitmo detainees said abuse sparked lies, transcripts reveal
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> Accused terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay complained of abuse that  
> they said led them to tell their CIA interrogators lies, according  
> to sections of U.S. government transcripts made public on Monday.
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> Suspected al Qaeda figure Abu Zubaydah told a military tribunal in  
> 2007 that he was physically and mentally tortured for months. "They  
> did not care about my injuries," said Zubaydah, according to the  
> newly released transcripts, adding, "doctors told me that I nearly  
> died four times."
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> When Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan and badly wounded during a  
> shootout in March 2002, U.S. intelligence officials considered him a  
> major player in al Qaeda.
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> He was treated for his injuries, then later subjected to  
> waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques after CIA  
> interrogators said he stopped cooperating with them. According to a  
> Justice Department memo released in April 2009 by the Obama  
> administration, Zubaydah was waterboarded at least 83 times by CIA  
> interrogators in August 2002.
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> In the newly released section, Zubaydah said his interrogators  
> discovered "that I am not number three in al Qaeda."
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> The transcripts were released in response to a Freedom of  
> Information Act lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties  
> Union. The Obama administration reviewed the highly redacted  
> portions of the transcripts that were released shortly after the  
> Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held at Guantanamo Bay in the  
> spring of 2007. The sections made public on Monday still remain  
> heavily blacked out.
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> Khalid Sheik Mohammad, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11  
> attacks, told the military panel he made up stories when tortured.  
> In broken English, Mohammad told of being questioned about the  
> location of Osama bin Laden.
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> "Where is he? I don't know," said Mohammad. "Then he tortures me.  
> Then I said yes, he is in this area..."
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> Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, accused of plotting the attack on the USS  
> Cole that killed 17 Americans in 2000, said his interrogators "drown  
> me in water," apparently in reference to the times he was subjected  
> to waterboarding. According to the transcripts, he claimed he was  
> able to run 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) before he was detained, "now,  
> I cannot walk more than 10 minutes."
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> ACLU Attorney Ben Wizner said in a statement that the documents  
> "provide further evidence of brutal torture and abuse in the CIA's  
> interrogation program and demonstrate beyond doubt that this  
> information has been suppressed solely to avoid embarrassment and  
> growing demands for accountability."
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> Wizner said the ACLU will go back to court to seek the full release  
> of all of the documents.
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