Comments on: UK Judges Compare Binyam Mohamed’s Torture To That Of Abu Zubaydah

By: Two Algerian Torture Victims Freed from Guantanamo « freedetainees.org

Two Algerian Torture Victims Freed from Guantanamo « freedetainees.org — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:46:10 +0000

[...] Bagram. He was also one of ten supposedly significant prisoners — including the British resident Binyam Mohamed — who were flown to Guantánamo on September 20, 2004, after being held as “high-value [...]

By: Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton of Harper’s Exposes the Truth about the 2006 “Suicides” « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:04:45 +0000

[...] named Muhammad Salih — also raises disturbing questions (as was reported by former prisoner Binyam Mohamed in an op-ed for the Miami Herald), and to this he could have added that the death of another Saudi, [...]

By: Shaker Aamer: UK Government Drops Opposition To Release Of Torture Evidence « freedetainees.org

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:53:34 +0000

[...] the case of Binyam Mohamed shows (which I reported most recently here), this “fight to the death” has now been ongoing for 14 months, although the judges show no [...]

By: Truthout Video: The Human Cost of Guantánamo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:08:16 +0000

[...] on the stories of three particular prisoners — Shaker Aamer, who is still held), Binyam Mohamed (who was released in February 2009) and Omar Deghayes (released in December 2007) — “Outside [...]

By: Using Photos of Abu Zubaydah’s Torture to Intimidate and Threaten Other Prisoners « freedetainees.org

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:56:20 +0000

[...] Andy Worthington noted, propagating knowledge of this “evidence of widespread torture and abuse prior to the August 2002 [...]

By: Torturing Binyam Mohamed–Before Bybee Two | No Bull. news service.

Torturing Binyam Mohamed–Before Bybee Two | No Bull. news service. — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:11:28 +0000

[...] threaten the relationship (and intelligence sharing) between the UK and US. Here Andy Worthington’s post on this ruling, and here’s Clive Stafford [...]

By: Emptywheel » Torturing Binyam Mohamed–Before Bybee Two

Emptywheel » Torturing Binyam Mohamed–Before Bybee Two — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:58:49 +0000

[...] threaten the relationship (and intelligence sharing) between the UK and US. Here Andy Worthington’s post on this ruling, and here’s Clive Stafford [...]

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:50:24 +0000

Thanks, Jeff. I was amazed that the mere act of redacting two passages in a judgment could reveal so much when the passages were approved for public release by the British government under pressure from the Special Advocates. Ironically, they might almost have been overlooked had the FCO not made such a big fuss in the first place, but as it is, I think they certainly add weight to the evidence of widespread torture and abuse prior to the August 2002 torture memos. Moreover, this may well have to be the focus of our pressure as writers and activists if, as anticipated, the OPR report on the OLC lawyers ends up having had its teeth removed.

By: Jeffrey Kaye

Jeffrey Kaye — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:37:11 +0000

This is HUGE news, and thanks for uniquely putting it out there, Andy.

While, as you so ably put it, this latest revelation helps explain “the reason that the British government remains so desperate not to have the details disclosed of what it knew about Mohamed’s treatment,” it also shows why the U.S. government, even under Obama/Clinton, have been trying to bury this info.
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In subtle but powerful ways, the news that Binyam Mohamed was subjected to the enhanced interrogation techniques in a period of time contemporaneous to that of Zubaydah, or behind the latter by only a matter of days or weeks, changes the torture narrative.

For instance, if there were videotapes (destroyed) of the Zubaydah and Nashiri tortures, what about Mohamed? Also, this news demonstrates that facts concerning pre August 2001 “authorized torture may be out there in a number of places. The “experiment” was not confined to Zubaydah alone in the Spring of 2002.

It also raises questions to the involvement of U.S. and British agents in the rendition torture, something I know you have already followed and IIRC involved MI5 or MI6 agents involved in Binyam’s torture.

Tremendous job, Andy.

By: UK Judges Compare Binyam Mohamed’s Torture To That Of Abu Zubaydah by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:40:08 +0000

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