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World News See other World News Articles Title: In first, Guantanamo detainee details CIA torture in court Majid Khan details being waterboarded, sexually and physically assaulted at CIA black sites during sentencing hearing. Majid Khan pleaded guilty to charges related to his work with al-Qaeda and has since cooperated with US authorities prosecuting five men charged in the September 11 attacks [File: Center for Constitutional Rights/The Associated Press] Published On 29 Oct 2021 A detainee held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre has offered the first public account in a United States court of torture at a CIA clandestine facility during Washington’s decades-long so-called “war on terror”. Majid Khan, a former resident of a Baltimore suburb, detailed being waterboarded, physically and sexually abused, and suffering other forms of torment at a CIA “black site”, used by the US in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Keep reading Why is Guantanamo Bay still open? US top court hears Guantanamo detainee’s ‘state secrets’ case Judge says US held Afghan man unlawfully at Guantanamo Bay Thursday’s testimony from Khan, which came during a war crimes tribunal sentencing hearing at the US base in Cuba, represents the first time a former “black site” detainee has publicly described abuses committed as part of the US spy agency’s so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques”, according to the New York Times. Khan had previous pleaded guilty to charges related to his role as an al-Qaeda courier and planner. “I thought I was going to die,” Khan said during the testimony, detailing various tortuous techniques, including being suspended naked from a ceiling beam for long periods, being doused repeatedly with ice water to keep him awake for days, and having his head held underwater to the point of near-drowning, only to have water poured into his nose and mouth when the interrogators let him up. Khan said that during his approximately three years being held at CIA sites, he was beaten, given forced enemas, sexually assaulted and starved. He was transferred to the US military detention centre in Cuba in September 2006. “I would beg them to stop and swear to them that I didn’t know anything,” he said. “If I had intelligence to give I would have given it already but I didn’t have anything to give.” While some of Khan’s treatment had previously been detailed in a 2014 US Senate Intelligence Committee report – which accused the CIA of going far beyond its legal boundaries as it sought to extract information about al-Qaeda – public personal accounts from high-level detainees have been virtually non-existent. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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