Comments on: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: New Revelations About The Torture Of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi

By: Abu Zubaydah’s Torture Diary « freedetainees.org

Abu Zubaydah’s Torture Diary « freedetainees.org — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:37:31 +0000

[...] Lawrence Wilkerson Nails Cheney’s Iraq Lies Again (And Rumsfeld And The CIA) (all May 2009) and WORLD EXCLUSIVE: New Revelations About The Torture Of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi (June 2009), The Logic of the 9/11 Trials, The Madness of the Military Commissions (November 2009), [...]

By: UN Secret Detention Report Asks, “Where Are The CIA Ghost Prisoners?” by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:50:43 +0000

[...] used to justify the invasion of Iraq. After multiple renditions to other countries (which I exposed last June), al-Libi’s return to Libya came to a dark end last May, when he died under mysterious [...]

By: Four Men Leave Guantánamo; Two Face Ill-Defined Trials In Italy « freedetainees.org

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:10:06 +0000

[...] about links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein that was used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Rendered to various other prisons run by or on behalf of the CIA in the four years that followed, he was returned to Libya in 2006, [...]

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

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:56:29 +0000

[...] perhaps the CIA’s most notorious “ghost prisoner,” was rendered to Egypt, where, under torture, he produced a false confession about connections between al-Qaeda and Saddam [...]

By: Emptywheel » Ibn Sheikh al-Libi IDs Others

Emptywheel » Ibn Sheikh al-Libi IDs Others — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:01:00 +0000

[...] Worthington has some new information on the pre-"suicide" fate of Ibn Sheikh al-Libi, based on second-hand information via [...]

By: In the Guardian: Remember 9/11 and remember Guantánamo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:35:35 +0000

[...] also discuss Bagram and the fate of those held in secret prisons or rendered to other countries, but my focus is predominantly on Guantánamo, because, on the eighth anniversary of 9/11, it [...]

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:14:32 +0000

jk,
Thanks for the explanation. All makes sense to me. Certainly Cheney’s been doing the rounds in an attempt to justify his version of history — which, amazingly, does involve keeping Guantanamo open forever, and only trying “high-value detainees” in kangaroo courts. I’d been looking at this more in isolation (i.e. that he doesn’t want a prosecutor set on him), but it makes sense that he’s also representing other interested (and scared) parties who don’t want the sunlight illuminating their crimes.

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

Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo on Democracy Now! « Dandelion Salad — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:20:17 +0000

[...] Guantánamo’s longest-term hunger striker), and about my world exclusive published last week, “New Revelations About The Torture Of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi,” in which I presented new information about the CIA’s most notorious “ghost prisoner,” who [...]

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:47:09 +0000

Michael then replied, pointing out, “I made the exact same point specifically in the piece last month”:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/197963

This is from that article:

Al-Libi’s death highlights a predicament facing Obama officials: returning detainees to countries that practice torture. Seven Libyans remain at Guantánamo, and U.S. officials are loath to send home any more. Last year, President Bush resumed diplomatic relations with Libya and removed it from a list of “state sponsors” of terror. But a State Department human-rights report recently concluded that Libyan security forces “routinely tortured” prisoners by applying electric shocks, breaking fingers, pouring lemon juice on open wounds and burning them with cigarettes. The U.S. official said, “It’s not in the U.S. interest to send people back to countries where they’re going to be abused or end up dead.”

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:46:21 +0000

My reply:

Hi Mike,
Good to hear from you. Thanks for making clear why you mentioned that al-Libi’s death could complicate Obama’s plans to close Guantánamo. I apologize for not realizing that you were referring to the Libyans still held, and of course that does complicate matters.
Best,
Andy