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Kidnapped by the CIA

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Posted on Feb 28, 2007
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Isolation cells in the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Washington Post has an inside look at “black sites,” the secret detention centers operated by the CIA that hold abducted terror suspects, one of whom describes a world of interrogation, torture and misery.


Washington Post:

The house in Islamabad, which U.S. intelligence officials say was jointly run by the CIA and Pakistani intelligence, had been outfitted with jail cells. When [Marwan] Jabour arrived, he saw as many as 20 other detainees, including the 16-year-old son of an Egyptian sheik, who had been captured in Pakistan. Dozens of al-Qaeda suspects swept up in the years after Sept. 11, 2001, have been through the house, according to accounts by former prisoners and U.S. intelligence officials with knowledge of the facility.

Jabour spent five weeks there, chained to a wall and prevented from sleeping more than a few hours at a time. He said he was beaten nightly by Pakistani guards after hours of questions from U.S. interrogators. Then he and others were whisked off to CIA-run sites. Some sites were in Eastern Europe; Jabour went to one in Afghanistan. Interrogators—whom he described as Americans in their late 20s and early 30s—told Jabour he would never see his three children again.

Human Rights Watch has identified 38 people who may have been held by the CIA and remain unaccounted for. Intelligence officials told the Post that the number of detainees held in such facilities over nearly five years remains classified but is higher than 60. Their whereabouts have not been publicly disclosed.

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By shirley, February 28, 2007 at 11:58 pm #
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this world has become so evil i fear GOD will destroy us all very soon we shall all go the way of sodom and gomora GOD HAVE MERCY ON THE CHILDREN OF THIS WICKED WICKED WORLD.

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By trantieungoc, February 28, 2007 at 4:02 pm #
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This is the way Bush/Cheney dynasty doing business through dirty program. Between their administration and that of Saddam Hussein which ones is despised ?

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