Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Detainee Claims To Have Lied Under CIA torture

File photo shows leg shackles at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Abu Zubaydah, an accused top Al-Qaeda operative, "nearly died four times" when CIA interrogators tortured him into providing statements, according to government transcripts. (AFP/Pool/File/Brennan Linsley)

From Yahoo News/AP:

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, an accused top Al-Qaeda operative and self-confessed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, claimed to have lied under torture by the CIA, according to government transcripts released Monday.

"I just make up stories," he said in broken English, telling a 2007 military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay of an interrogation session during which he was asked about the location of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

"Where is he? I don't know. Then he torture me," said Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.

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My Comment: Should we believe someone who confessed that he was responsible for 9/11 .... I let you be the judge of that.

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