Al Qaeda operations chief Abu Zubaydah was injured in a raid on his safehouse in Faisalabad, Pakistan, on March 28, 2002. Bleeding profusely, “The terrorist was rushed to a Pakistani hospital. After his medical condition stabilized, he was secretly flown to Thailand and into CIA custody. The Thai government, which had long battled Muslim separatists in its southern provinces–and also had a history of cooperation with the U.S. military, dating back to Vietnam–was willing to be the first country to provide a secret location for the CIA to imprison and interrogate important al Qaeda prisoners.”
– James Risen, State of War, Page 21