.../bush-administration/16399/cia-destroyed-two-taped-interrogations/ {EXCERPT} The Moderate Voice The videotapes showed agency operatives in 2002 subjecting terrorism suspects including Abu Zubaydah, the first detainee in CIA custody to severe... http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/bush-administration/16399/cia-destroyed-two-taped-interrogations/ War Crimes/Military Improprieties ...

... of any kind of light. They would cut them off from any sense of what time it was or . . . anything that would give them a sense of where they were." She also told of the CIA interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, who was not only waterboarded (a technique in which he was made to feel that he was about to be drowned) but also "kept in . . . a small cage, about one meter [39.7 inches] by one meter...

... him to come get his wife?" ----------- Suskind: W personally ordered Mentally Ill Terrorist be Tortured http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/6/20/17465/8520 Interrogators did .. strapped Abu Zubaydah to a water-board, which reproduces the agony of drowning. They threatened him with certain death. They withheld medication. They bombarded him with deafening noise and harsh lights, ...

..." of an al-Qaida operative named Abu Zubaydah. Bush claimed he was a "senior terrorist ...accurate information about planned terrorist attacks. In fact, Zubaydah was an al-Qaida travel agent (literally ...spun wild scenarios of terrorism that proved bogus. Zubaydah, it turns out, is a psychotic with the...sadism, the more intelligence. While he referenced Zubaydah, he did not mention Jamal Ahmed al-...

...of the Union Address, 2003 [1] Bush is back in that newspeak mode referring not to a "different fate" (murder?) but calling torture an "alternative set of procedures". We knew that Zubaydah had more information that could save innocent lives, but he stopped talking. As his questioning proceeded, it became clear that he had received training on how to resist interrogation. And so the CIA...

...of the Union Address, 2003 [1] Bush is back in that newspeak mode referring not to a "different fate" (murder?) but calling torture an "alternative set of procedures". We knew that Zubaydah had more information that could save innocent lives, but he stopped talking. As his questioning proceeded, it became clear that he had received training on how to resist interrogation. And so the CIA...

... to be the Number 3 al-Qaeda leader before he was captured in Pakistan in 2003 Abu Zubaydah: Alleged link between Osama Bin Laden and many al-Qaeda cells before his capture in Pakistan in 2002... on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Mr Bush spelled out how the questioning of detainee Abu Zubaydah had led to the capture of Ramzi Binalshibh, which in turn led to the detention of Khalid ...

...and the ever-credulous press -- identified Zubaydah as "chief of operations" for the...a lie. As interrogators quickly realized, Zubaydah was a lowly factotum - "al Qaeda...the years of obsessively detailed diaries Zubaydah kept on his various fractured ... their own reality." Told that Zubaydah had revealed nothing of value ...wink were clearly understood. The wretched Zubaydah was then subjected to a ...