For First Time in Public, a Detainee Describes Torture at C.I.A. Black Sites

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Arsalan Iftikhar
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"A Baltimore high school graduate
told a #GuantanamoBay military jury for the first time about brutal forced feedings, crude waterboarding and other physical and sexual abuse he endured during his detention in the #CIA overseas prison network."

“The more I cooperated, the more I was tortured,” said Majid Khan, who is now cooperating with the government.

For First Time in Public, a Detainee Describes Torture at C.I.A. Black Sites
In a sentencing hearing, Majid Khan, a Pakistani who lived in suburban Baltimore before joining Al Qaeda, detailed dungeonlike conditions and episodes of abuse.
nytimes.com
9:20 PM · Oct 28, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/us/politics/guantanamo-detainee-torture.html

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GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — A suburban Baltimore high school graduate turned Al Qaeda courier, speaking to a military jury for the first time, gave a detailed account on Thursday 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 network.

Appearing in open court, 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.

For more than two hours, he spoke about dungeonlike conditions, humiliating stretches of nudity with only a hood on his head, sometimes while his arms were chained in ways that made sleep impossible, and being intentionally nearly drowned in icy cold water in tubs at two sites, once while a C.I.A. interrogator counted down from 10 before water was poured into his nose and mouth.

Soon after his capture in Pakistan in March 2003, Mr. Khan said, he cooperated with his captors, telling them everything he knew, with the hope of release. “Instead, the more I cooperated, the more I was tortured,” he said.

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

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2. 'And yet

Holder could find no one to prosecute.