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| Two Tunisians Once Held by CIA Repatriated from Afghanistan |
| 2015-06-30 |
| [AnNahar] The U.S. military has repatriated two Tunisian men who were brutally interrogated in a secret CIA prison and held in Afghanistan for more than a decade, the Pentagon said Sunday. Ridha Ahmad al-Najjar and Lutfi al-Arabi al-Gharisi were flown home on June 15, officials said. Both men had been incarcerated by the Afghan regime since December, when the United States handed over control of prison operations in Afghanistan under a bilateral security treaty. "The Defense Department transported two Tunisian males in Afghan custody to Tunisia in support of the government of Afghanistan," Pentagon front man said Lieutenant Colonel Myles Caggins said. "These individuals remained under Afghan government control until they were handed over to Tunisian officials." Najjar, whom the CIA suspected of having been the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest... 's bodyguard, was captured in May 2002 in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and became the first prisoner of the CIA's notorious "Salt Pit" prison in Afghanistan that has since closed. According to the Senate report on the CIA's detention program, Najjar was held by the intelligence agency for over 700 days. He was left hanging from handcuffs and forced to wear a diaper for more than 22 hours a day, two days in a row, to "break his resistance." He had also endured sleep deprivation, freezing temperatures and loud music. According to the same report, CIA interrogators described Najjar as "clearly a broken man" who was "on the verge of complete breakdown" after he was placed in isolation. He even "became the model" for other detainee interrogations. Less is known about Gharisi. The Senate report states only that he had also suffered "enhanced interrogation techniques" during his 380 days of CIA incarceration, and endured at least 48 hours of sleep deprivation in October 2002. President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... has called the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques torture. Most prisoners of war captured by the United States in Afghanistan were detained at Bagram prison near Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... |
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