![]() ![]() "Everybody agrees, they tortured the wrong guy," says his lawyer. The US initially claimed he was a top al-Qaeda operative, but was later forced to concede he wasn't even a member of the group. There, he was used as "a human guinea pig," the first victim of George Bush's "21st-century medieval torture program" against terror suspects. ![]() Shot multiple times, he was successively renditioned to CIA "black sites" in Pakistan, Poland, Thailand, Afghanistan, Lithuania and Northern Africa before being sent to Guantánamo in September 2006. Now 52, the Saudi-born Zubaydah moved to the West Bank in occupied Palestine as a teenager, and was captured in Pakistan by CIA, FBI, and Pakistani agents in 2002. Still there, he's "the forever prisoner" - not for what he did (he was never charged) but for what was done to him. "Like clockwork," Abu Zubaydah was ceaselessly beaten, rectal-fed, hung by his hands, slammed into walls and waterboarded 83 times during Darth Cheney's grisly, senseless "enhanced interrogation techniques." In newly released drawings, Zubaydah documents his abuse during 21 years at Guantánamo. The searing images, by "the poster child for America's torture program," stun. ![]()
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