Detainee Says He Was Tortured in C.I.A. Prison (Majid Khan, first detainee to have seen a lawyer)

[maddezmom]

Source: New York Times

By WILLIAM GLABERSON
Published: December 9, 2007
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 — The first of the so-called high value Guantánamo detainees to have seen a lawyer claims he was subjected to “state-sanctioned torture” while in secret C.I.A. prisons, and he has asked for a court order barring the government from destroying evidence of his treatment.

The request, in a filing by his lawyers, was made on Nov. 29, before officials from the Central Intelligence Agency acknowledged that the agency had destroyed videotapes of interrogations of two Qaeda operatives that current and former officials said included the use of harsh techniques.

Lawyers for the detainee, Majid Khan, a former Baltimore resident, released documents in his case on Friday. They claim he “was subjected to an aggressive C.I.A. detention and interrogation program notable for its elaborate planning and ruthless application of torture” to numerous detainees.

The documents also suggest that Mr. Khan, 27, and other high-value detainees are now being held in a previously undisclosed area of the Guantánamo prison he called Camp 7.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/washington/09gitmo.html

[Jim__]

1. George Bush shit on everything good America ever stood for.

The American media stood by and cheered.

[NanceGreggs]

2. You have just summed up the State of Our Union ...

... in seventeen words.

[rockybelt]

3. Let's bring

Mr. Khan out of the dungeon and let him testify before Congress. Since the tapes have been destroyed, maybe he can give congress an accurate account and name some names and corroborating witnesses.

[L. Coyote]

4. Just the beginning of a long saga of revelations from the illegally detained, no doubt.

It is time for a group of lawyers to go to Guantanamo, or a group of Congress people.