Guantanamo Suspect Says CIA Tortured Him

U.S. Resident's Attorneys Say He Admitted Anything His Torturers Asked To End His Suffering

(AP)  A suspected "high-value" terrorist taken to Guantanamo last year alleges he was tortured in overseas CIA prisons and is now suffering physical and psychological trauma as a result, one of his attorneys said Saturday.

Lawyers for Majid Khan have sought a federal court order for the government to preserve any evidence of torture, arguing that evidence of harsh interrogation techniques is key to their client proving he has no ties to al Qaeda. The motion was filed prior to Thursday's announcement that the agency had destroyed videotapes of the interrogations of two top terror suspects.

Khan, the only U.S. resident among 15 so-called high-value detainees, described the alleged abuse in October during his first meetings with attorneys at the Guantanamo Bay Navy base in Cuba.

He was the first high-value detainee to meet privately with an attorney at Guantanamo.

Wells Dixon, who was not authorized to share details of his client's account, said Khan had a lot to say about his treatment in CIA custody. "He was subjected to state-sanctioned torture," Dixon alleged.

A Central Intelligence Agency spokesman denied allegations that it tortured Khan or any others as part of its terror interrogation effort that began in 2002.

Khan, a 1999 graduate of a Baltimore-area high school, was seized in Pakistan in March 2003 and held until last year in secret CIA custody. In September 2006, U.S. authorities transferred him and other high-value detainees to Guantanamo, where they may be charged and face prosecution under a new military tribunal system.

After hearing Khan's account of his time in CIA custody, his attorneys sought the court order for the government to preserve evidence of torture.

"Khan admitted anything his interrogators demanded of him, regardless of the truth (redacted) in order to end his suffering," according to the attorneys' filing.

The U.S. has alleged that Khan plotted attacks in the U.S. and Pakistan with one of the group's most dangerous operatives, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, including a plan to bomb American gas stations.

Dixon said Khan, 27, shows symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and is unlikely to recover fully from the effects of an interrogation style that aimed to "intentionally and systematically inflict suffering."

CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said the agency's interrogation program that used "special methods of questioning" on a small number of suspects has provided valuable insights into al Qaeda's operations and foiled terrorist attacks.

"If the CIA, with its profound counter-terror knowledge, had not stepped forward to interrogate hardened terrorists, people would be right to ask why," Gimigliano said. "Our country is safer for it."

The military recently declassified a small portion of 500 pages of the notes from the lawyers' conversations with Khan and they provide a rare glimpse of life for men considered among the most dangerous terror suspects.

Dixon said Khan, who has been on hunger strikes at Guantanamo, was extremely thin, a contrast to the burly young man he had seen in photographs. "I thought they got us the wrong prisoner," said Dixon, one of two attorneys with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights who met with Khan.

Khan has scars including one on his left arm where he chewed through an artery in his elbow shortly after his transfer to the isolated military outpost. He also showed signs of memory loss and had difficulty concentrating, according to the notes.

The attorneys said Khan is held in an area known as "Camp 7," apart from the prison camps that journalists visit on tours, and is allowed to communicate with another high-value detainee, Abu Zubaydah.

A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, said the military does not disclose the location of individual detainees, partly because of security concerns. He said all the roughly 305 detainees at Guantanamo are treated humanely.

Military prosecutors have said they expect to charge as many as 80 prisoners. Only three detainees are currently facing charges at Guantanamo, where men suspected of links to terrorism are held as "enemy combatants" without the same rights as traditional prisoners of war.

[terrorislam6]

VOTE FOR JEFFERSON VOTE AGAINST FASCIST NAZI TERRORISLAM VOTE GOP

dnc are like john adams and want to give the jihadist their lunch money hoping they will leave us alone

gop are like thomas jefferson and want to spend their lunch money on weapons and go kick the jihadists in their arses

What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad

Thomas Jefferson knew about fascist nazi islam, he killed plenty of them

In 1786 Jefferson and John Adams went to negotiate with Tripoli''s envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman or (Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). They asked him by what right he extorted money and took slaves. Jefferson reported to Secretary of State John Jay, and to the Congress:

The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet (Mohammed), that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to heaven.
http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan07/jeff_quran.htm
America and the Barbary Pirates: An International Battle Against an Unconventional Foe
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjprece.html
muslim justifies slavery and piracy%u2026
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?6bdec278-6a71-4436-bc4d-29d1c54b0ad7

[j-whitman]

terrorislam6--Lars,,, It''s Sunday, give us a break -- Don''t you have some church to haunt or children to chase ??

[blondmadison]

The only way to make this administration and every other countries administrations stop using violence, torture and deceit as a means of governing, it to call a moratorium on violence and war. Period.

Disallow use of weapons for any reason.

Think that can''t be done? Of course it can be done.

Unless you want this to continue, and it will unless you, the people make it stop, you better get together, peacefully, and remove all support administrations under every leader. Then move people in to take their place who have not had any experience in politics, military, relgion, or academics, and most importantly, they cannot be wealthy.

Good luck.

[terrorislam6]

LOOK WHO BROKE THE CONSTITUTION

GOP targeting Clinton on phone-call snooping
Republicans plan to seize on an allegation from the 1992 presidential campaign to tarnish Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) on the red-hot issue of government surveillance.
Government surveillance will be at the forefront of the political debate this fall as congressional Democrats and President Bush square off over legislation allowing electronic spying on U.S. soil without a warrant.

Republicans are focusing on an allegation in a recent book by two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, which suggests Clinton listened to a secretly recorded conversation between political opponents.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-targeting-clinton-on-phone-call-snooping-2007-10-16.html

[terrorislam6]

CIA renditions began under Clinton: agent
The US Central Intelligence Agency''s (CIA) controversial "rendition" program was launched under US president Bill Clinton, a former US counter-terrorism agent has told a German newspaper.
Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran of the CIA who resigned from the agency in 2004, has told Die Zeit that the US administration had been looking in the mid-1990s for a way to combat the terrorist threat and circumvent the cumbersome US legal system.
"President Clinton, his national security adviser Sandy Berger and his terrorism adviser Richard Clark ordered the CIA in the autumn of 1995 to destroy Al Qaeda," Mr Scheuer said.
"We asked the president what we should do with the people we capture. Clinton said ''That''s up to you''."
Mr Scheuer, who headed the CIA unit that tracked Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden from 1996 to 1999, says he developed and led the "renditions" program.
He says the program includes moving prisoners without due legal process to countries without strict human rights protections.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1539284.htm

[stevex47]

When your govt. illegally spies on you, out''s it''s own CIA agents, destroy''s evidence(turture and e-mails), it''s a rogue government.

Half it''s members are in men''s stalls soliciting perversions.

Loses billions in equipment in iraq.

Dollar devalued to world lows.

All "intelligencde" from this administration has proved completely 100% false and dishonest.

Mission Accomplished.

[terrorislam6]

it is fascist nazi terrorislam stupid,,,

non muslims of the world unite,,, fight against the tyranny of the fascist nazi terrorslam imperialist empire of the darkside,,,

I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair''s bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.
More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770

Bless the Beasts and Children
Fascist nazi terrorslam kills every man woman and child in the village again%u2026 typical mo for terrorslam%u2026
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm

Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.

http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan

the truth about fascist nazi terrorislam...
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/

[ivandrago]

It''s a sad state of the union when we sink to the level of the terrorist. I''m afraid that American hawks will turn with country into a rogue state that acts aggressively at every opportunity. Wait a minute.. we do.

[j-whitman]

sevenveils,,,, You''ve forgotten, the problem with GITMO is you are not given the opertunity to defend your credibility

[j-whitman]

rudy654,,, How credible is he ?? Not very, neither is Bush ---- We can no longer deny we don''t torture them.