“…Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, alleged to be an al Qaeda leader, was captured in Afghanistan and transferred to the USS Bataan somewhere in the Indian Ocean in January 2002. The USS Bataan is one of as many as seventeen ships used by the United States as floating prisons, in which detainees were kept and interrogated under torture. About fifty detainees at a time were locked up in the bottom of the isolated ship, and according to one ex-Guantanamo prisoner, they were beaten ‘even more severely than in Guantanamo.’ Between torture sessions, they were photographed and seen by a doctor to ensure they would not die and to assess when they could undergo further interrogation.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Page 80