Who Removed Terrorism Suspect Abu Zubaydah’s Eye and Why?

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http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/Who_Removed_Terrorism_Suspect_Abu_Zubaydahs_Eye_and_Why_110531

Nearly 10 years ago, detainee Abu Zubaydah lost his left eye while in the custody of the CIA at a secret location. To this day he says he doesn’t know why the Americans removed it.

During his capture in Pakistan in March 2002, Zubaydah was shot several times, in the leg, groin and stomach. But he did not sustain any injuries to his eyes, face or head.

U.S. officials were mum on the subject of Zubaydah’s eye. Then a counterterrorism official recently told Truthout that “Zubaydah had a preexisting eye condition when he was captured” and medical personnel tried to treat the problem, but were forced to surgically remove the eye.

One possible explanation for why the detainee lost his eye has to do with authorized torture techniques. In the one of the interrogation memos drafted by former Justice Department attorney John Yoo, the “gouging” of a prisoner’s eyes was deemed “arguably legal under the president’s executive powers unless ‘specific intent’ to harm the prisoner could be proven.”

[Scuba]

1. Yoo is a war criminal, just like his buddies Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush, Gonzales, et al. n/t

[malaise]

2. Lock up the war criminals

Rec

[notadmblnd]

3. I wouldn't be surprised if Yoo had bodies buried in his basement

I hope to hell he isn't married and that he doesn't have kids.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Eye for an Eye?

Who's to say some sicko has it on his desk somewhere?

Cheney maybe? Nothing surprises me

[leveymg]

5. There is something Old Testament about the GWOT - or 12th Century Crusades.

Words cruel, barbaric, brutal, and unusual also come to mind. So does destruction of evidence. It's like these guys set out to turn western civilization back a millennium, and succeeded.

Moving forward into the Dark Ages.

[jberryhill]

6. I'm sure it's around here somewhere, give me a minute.... /nt

[MadMaddie]

7. Yoo and his cohorts need to look over their shoulder

because the Hague is going to get them one day.

It took 15 years to get the Serbia military criminal.....they are still hunting Nazi's