“As part of the Bush administration’s rendition program, some terrorism suspects were transferred to countries where torture is known to be used. The C.I.A. has declined to say publicly where [Ethiopian national] Mr. [Binyam] Mohamed was held and has denied that it ever engaged in or condoned torture. Mr. Mohamed has said that he was in Morocco for 18 months, during which time [in November 2002] his captors used scalpels to cut his chest and genitals. ‘I was in agony, crying, trying desperately to suppress myself, but I was screaming,’ Mr. Mohamed said this month [March 8, 2009] in an interview with The Mail on Sunday, a British newspaper. ‘There was blood all over,’ he added. ‘They cut all my private parts.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Raymond Bonner, “Plea Bargain Was Weighed for Guantanamo Detainee,” The New York Times, March 23, 2009