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Democracy Now!
April 19, 2018
The U.S. invaded Iraq as a result of the torture of a man called Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, who gave a false confession that he, al-Qaeda, his organization, were working with Saddam on obtaining weapons of mass destruction. That was used as a justification to invade Iraq. Al-Qaeda didn't exist in Iraq until theÃâà...
Modern Diplomacy
March 17, 2018
Within the administration, Abu Zubaydah's interrogation was “an important chapter,” the second analyst says: overall, his interrogation “product” was deemed to be more significant than the claims made by Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, another al-Qaeda captive, who in early 2002 was tortured in Egypt at the C.I.A.'sÃâà...
New York Times
March 14, 2018
After Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a Libyan captured in Afghanistan, was rendered by the United States to Egypt in 2002, Egyptian interrogators beat him and subjected him to a “mock burial” by putting him in a cramped box for 17 hours. He fabricated information that Iraq had provided training in chemical andÃâà...
Antiwar.com (blog)
March 14, 2018
Within the administration, Abu Zubaydah's interrogation was “an important chapter,” the second analyst says: overall, his interrogation “product” was deemed to be more significant than the claims made by Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, another al-Qaeda captive, who in early 2002 was tortured in Egypt at the C.I.A.'sÃâà...
Daily Times
January 12, 2018
The level of cooperation continued as post 9/11 terror leaders of the ilk of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, Sheikh Omar Saeed – accused of assassinating Daniel Pearl, Abu Zubaydah, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – the principle architect of the 9/11 attacks as well as other significant terrorist attacksÃâà...
Common Dreams
January 28, 2017
One of these was Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a Libyan terrorist whose real name was Ali Abdul Hamid al-Fakheri. Under torture, he “confessed” that that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was training al-Qaeda operatives in the use of chemical weapons. The Defense Intelligence Agency and other high-level intelligenceÃâà...
The Independent
January 27, 2017
That false confession was obtained from terror suspect Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a Libyan national captured in Afghanistan in November 2001 after the fall of the Taliban. Held at Bagram airbase, he was first tortured by US interrogators before later being flown to Egypt where he was subjected to all kinds ofÃâà...
The Independent
January 26, 2017
That false confession was obtained from terror suspect Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a Libyan national captured in Afghanistan in November 2001 after the fall of the Taliban. Held at Bagram airbase, he was first tortured by US interrogators before later being flown to Egypt where he was subjected to all kinds ofÃâà...
Empire
August 16, 2016
But he also dwells on the one beaten out of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi to prove a connection between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein and it's this shameless duplicity that Begg consistently highlights in advocating the purest, noblest form of jihad, which is to rise above conflict. Begg communicates with calmÃâà...
Middle East Eye
July 6, 2016
Ultimately, its roots lay in the invasion of Afghanistan two years earlier, and the rendition, detention and interrogation (RDI) programme that was used by the US to garner intelligence from those in their custody. Their main evidence was a confession extracted from Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi in Egypt, after he hadÃâà...
Newsweek
November 5, 2015
In 2013, while still in detention, Aamer told the Met Police detectives who were investigating British involvement in mistreatment of detainees that he witnessed the torture of fellow prisoner Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi at Bagram. The brutal treatment, Aamer said, lead al-Libi to wrongly tell interrogators, with BritishÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
June 11, 2015
According to the New York Times, the individual, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, was captured in Pakistan, transferred to a military base in Afghanistan and then rendered to authorities in Egypt, where he claims he was tortured. Indeed, even at the time, his statements on Iraq were disputed within the intelligenceÃâà...
Huffington Post (blog)
April 29, 2009
Where are Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi and the other 79 “ghost prisoners”? In addition, a second reason for revisiting al-Libi's story emerged two weeks ago, when memos approving the use of torture by the CIA, written by lawyers in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in 2002 and 2005, were released, because,Ãâà...
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