Ethics

Tortured detainee dies in Libya

By Ed Brayton

One of the early detainees to be tortured through our extraordinary rendition program has died in a Libyan prison. This particular detainee is important because he was the one who gave false information under torture about the alleged relationship between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

A former CIA high-value detainee, who provided bogus information that was cited by the Bush administration in the run-up to the Iraq war, has died in a Libyan prison, an apparent suicide, according to a Libyan newspaper.

A researcher for Human Rights Watch, who met Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi at the Abu Salim prison in Tripoli late last month, said a contact in Libya had confirmed the death.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 14, 2009 (boomark / email).