“With the participation of at least 54 governments, the CIA secretly and extrajudicially transferred at least 119 foreign Muslims from one foreign country to another for incommunicado detention and harsh interrogation at various CIA black sites. At least 39 of the men were subjected to ‘waterboarding,’ ‘walling,’ ‘rectal feeding’ – a form of rape – […]
1/9/2022
“Two decades after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the arrival of the first terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay on January 11, 2002, many Americans may not recall details of the systematic abuses carried out by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and US military against hundreds if not thousands of Muslims detained […]
12/7/2021
“At the heart of the [Military] commissions’ problems is their original sin, torture. The United States chose to secretly detain and torture the men it now seeks to punish. From the beginning, justice was an afterthought. As a CIA interrogator told a detainee, “[you will] never go to court, because ‘we can never let the […]
11/3/2021
“The FBI released hundreds of pages of newly declassified documents Wednesday [11/3/2021] about its long effort to explore connections between the Saudi government and the September 11th attacks, revealing the scope of a strenuous but ultimately fruitless investigation whose outcome many question to this day. … Agents for years investigated support given to several of […]
10/28/2021
During an October 2021 hearing at Camp Justice, at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba: “…Majid Khan, 41, became the first former prisoner of the black sites to openly describe, anywhere, the violent and cruel ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ that agents used to extract information and confessions from terrorism suspects…He expressed remorse for hurting people […]
10/28/2021
“A suburban Baltimore high school graduate turned Al Qaeda courier, speaking to a military jury for the first time, gave a detailed account this week [around October 28, 2021] of the brutal forced feedings, crude waterboarding and other physical and sexual abuse he endured during his 2003 to 2006 detention in the C.I.A.’s overseas prison […]
10/28/2021
“A suburban Baltimore high school graduate turned Al Qaeda courier, speaking to a military jury for the first time, gave a detailed account this week [around October 28, 2021] of the brutal forced feedings, crude waterboarding and other physical and sexual abuse he endured during his 2003 to 2006 detention in the C.I.A.’s overseas prison […]
10/7/2021
“Farkhonda, twenty-four, was born southwest of the capital, in Ghazni, and as a toddler in early 2001 moved with her family to Kabul. … Farkhonda is part of a generation of young Afghans raised in a post-Taliban country, believing in the ideas of freedom and democracy they’ve learned from an early age. The American invasion […]
10/7/2021
Nicholas Irving, former U.S. Army ranger, with three tours each in Iraq and Afghanistan, talking with Matt Gallagher for Esquire, said that he agrees with the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, “100 percent . . . . My stance is completely different than it was. What’s changed for me is nothing’s changed over there. We got bin Laden a long time […]
10/7/2021
David Petraeous, the former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, interviewed by Matt Gallagher for Esquire, said about the U.S withdrawal from Afghanistan, “This is not going to end the endless war. It’s going to end our involvement in it … I fear that the endless war is actually going to get worse.” According to […]