Comments on: Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi Has Died In A Libyan Prison

By: “¿Dónde están los prisioneros fantasma de la CIA?” | Amauta

“¿Dónde están los prisioneros fantasma de la CIA?” | Amauta — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:06:41 +0000

[...] Entre estos cinco últimos figura Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, el “prisionero fantasma” más tristemente célebre de la CIA, quien confesó en falso, bajo las torturas a que le sometieron en Egipto, que había conexiones entre al-Qaida y Saddam Hussein, lo que se utilizó posteriormente para justificar la invasión de Iraq. Después de múltiples entregas a otros países, el retorno de al-Libi a Libia llegó a un final tenebroso en mayo pasado, cuando murió en misteriosas circunstancias. [...]

By: UN Secret Detention Report Asks, “Where Are the CIA Ghost Prisoners?” « freedetainees.org

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:18:20 +0000

[...] These five include Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, the CIA’s most notorious “ghost prisoner,” who falsely confessed, under torture in Egypt, that there were connections between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, which were subsequently used to justify the invasion of Iraq. After multiple renditions to other countries, al-Libi’s return to Libya came to a dark end last May, when he died under mysterious circumstances. [...]

By: Dark Revelations in the Bagram Prisoner List « freedetainees.org

Dark Revelations in the Bagram Prisoner List « freedetainees.org — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:48:00 +0000

[...] prisons and others run by the CIA, he was returned to Libya, where he died, allegedly by committing suicide, in May last [...]

By: Gitmo Prisoner “suicided”? | NO LIES RADIO

Gitmo Prisoner “suicided”? | NO LIES RADIO — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:43:23 +0000

[...] he was, after seven long years imprisonment, to meet finally with an attorney, brings to mind the untimely death of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, also at first reported as a suicide, in a prison cell in Libya last May. [...]

By: The Logic of the 9/11 Trials, The Madness of the Military Commissions « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:55:33 +0000

[...] in 2006, after spending over four years in a series of proxy prisons or prisons run by the CIA, he died in mysterious circumstances in May this year. Zubaydah, who is still in Guantánamo, but has not been put forward for a trial, [...]

By: Emptywheel » Timing and the Sheikh al-Libi Death

Emptywheel » Timing and the Sheikh al-Libi Death — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:59:29 +0000

[...] Andy Worthington reported on Sheikh al-Libi’s death over the weekend, a few more details on timing have come [...]

By: Lawrence Wilkerson Nails Cheney On Use Of Torture To Invade Iraq by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:31:41 +0000

[...] 2003, in an attempt to encourage the UN to approve the forthcoming invasion of Iraq, and it was al-Libi’s death last Sunday in a Libyan prison that brought the full horror of this story back to [...]

By: The BRAD BLOG : History of CIA Torture: Unraveling the Web of Deceit, Part IV

The BRAD BLOG : History of CIA Torture: Unraveling the Web of Deceit, Part IV — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:54:57 +0000

[...] rendition — certainly not Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, the “emir” of an al Qaeda training camp, who was picked up by Pakistani forces in December 2001, turned over to US custody at a time when, according to the [...]

By: 1 Boring Old Man » individuals…

1 Boring Old Man » individuals… — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:40:39 +0000

[...] Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi Has Died In A Libyan Prison [...]

By: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo on Democracy Now! « Dandelion Salad

Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo on Democracy Now! « Dandelion Salad — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:34:31 +0000

[...] in which I presented new information about the CIA’s most notorious “ghost prisoner,” who died in a Libyan jail last month, but who, in 2002, while being tortured in Egypt, produced a false confession about a connection [...]