CIA victim said to have rescued future Afghan pres

[sabra]

Source: AP

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The only prisoner known to have died in the CIA's network of secret prisons once rescued Hamid Karzai, wading through rocket and small-arms fire to take the wounded future president to safety in Pakistan, according to his brother and former associates.

The prisoner, Gul Rahman, died in the early hours of Nov. 20, 2002, after being shackled to a cold cement wall in a secret CIA prison in northern Kabul known as the Salt Pit, current and former U.S. officials familiar with the case confirmed. His family is appealing to the International Red Cross to return his body.

Rahman was captured about three weeks before his death in a raid in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad against Hezb-e-Islami, an Afghan insurgent group led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, which was believed to have ties to al-Qaida. Rahman was arrested along with Hekmatyar's son-in-law, Dr. Ghairat Baheer.

Baheer, who was later released, was part of a Hezb-e-Islami delegation that came to Kabul last month to talk peace with Karzai.

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The Associated Press contacted Karzai's spokesman, Waheed Omar, but he would not comment, although he said the president was aware of an AP story identifying Rahman as the victim of the CIA secret prison. Further requests for comment over the past week have also gotten no response.

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[Duer 157099]

1. "only prisoner known to have died" what kind of fresh bullshit is this?

Known to whom? Right wing batshit crazies?

[Robb]

2. We're supposed to believe this?

Hekmatyar was the one who sprung Karzai now?

What's next, Hezb-e-Islami invented the original formula for Coke?

[Crowman1979]

3. When they mean ties to Al-Qaida, they really mean a rival warlord who told the CIA...

...what they wanted to hear.