“Another ‘high value’ detainee, [al Qaeda operations chief] Abu Zubaydah, said he almost died under interrogation. ‘After months of suffering and torture, physically and mentally, they did not care about my injuries that they inflicted to my eye, to my stomach, to my bladder, and my left thigh and my reproductive organs… Doctors told me that I nearly died four times,’ Zubaydah said. ‘They say, *this in your diary.* They say, *see you want to make operation against America.* I say no, the idea is different. They say no, torturing, torturing. I say *okay, I do. I was decide to make operation.* ‘ Zubaydah was the first ‘high-value’ detainee to be subjected to enhanced interrogation approved by the George W. Bush administration…”
– Agence France-Presse Staff, “Detainee claims to have lied under CIA Torture,” Yahoo! News, June 16, 2009