Whom would you believe? The CIA or an Al Qaeda terrorist? Majid Kahn was captured in 2003 and has been held at Guantanamo since 2006. Shortly after his capture, Mr. Kahn said his interrogators waterboarded him twice. The CIA denies this.
Mr. Khan told his lawyers that he was moved to CIA “black sites” and beaten repeatedly. He was hung naked from a wooden beam for three days. He was taken down to be submerged in an ice bath His head was held under water. He received “violent enemas.” The treatment went on for months.
Mr. Kahn is not a nice man. He delivered $50,000 to Qaeda operatives who used it to carry out a truck bombing in Indonesia. We had that information without the torture.
I would point out that we live in a democracy and the CIA is torturing people in our name.
The CIA denies that Mr. Kahn was even waterboarded. Here’s my question. Whom do you believe, Mr. Kahn or the CIA?
The basic information for this posting comes from a Times editorial dated June 6, 2015. The questions are mine.
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