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Abu Zubaydah was captured in a raid in Pakistan in 2002 and has been held at the U.S. Navy base without charges since 2006. By Carol Rosenberg A U.N. human rights panel has urged the United States ...
As I discussed in my piece, The Zubaydah Dossier, there is no question that Abu Zubaydah was a top al Qaeda terrorist with detailed knowledge of al Qaeda's plotting. Despite a wealth of evidence ...
Gitmo Detainee Abu Zubaydah Appears in Public, Makes Case for Release. He has not been seen publicly since he was captured in Pakistan by the CIA. By ABC News. August 23, 2016, 4:56 PM.
Dec. 10, 2007— -- A leader of the CIA team that captured the first major al Qaeda figure, Abu Zubaydah, says subjecting him to waterboarding was torture but necessary. In the first public ...
Zubaydah Commentator Matt Miller says U.S. officials should do all they can to get information from suspected terror leader Abu Zubaydah, who is now in U.S. military ...
Abu Zubaydah was the first prisoner waterboarded by the C.I.A. He has never faced charges at Guantánamo Bay. By Carol Rosenberg The U.S. government is still sorting out what’s secret in an ...
By Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel. On May 9, the Convening Authority for the Gitmo military commissions signed charges against five detainees alleged to be responsible for 9/11. Yet, in spite of the fact ...
According to sources, Abu Zubaydah told interrogators that al-Qaeda operatives were discussing attacks on “soft targets,” meaning nongovernmental buildings and places where large numbers of ...
Someone at CNN is undoubtedly having a bad weekend after a graphic describing alleged terrorist Abu Zubaydah as an associate of one “Obama Bin Laden” was broadcast during CNN News Central on ...
Of all the journalism jobs I'm glad I don't have, covering the "story" of captured al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah ranks high on the list. Maybe I've seen too many episodes of "The Agency," CBS's ...
NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah, captured last month in Pakistan, has recovered from his injuries and is beginning to talk to ...