U. S. is transferring to simplified regime of imprisonment culprit in terrorist attacks 2001.09.11
2023.02.02 14:03
U. S. is transferring to simplified regime of imprisonment culprit in terrorist attacks 2001.09.11
By Kristina Sobol
Budrigannews.com – The Pentagon announced on Thursday that Majid Khan, a Pakistani man who admitted to being tortured by the Central Intelligence Agency following the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, has been transferred from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Belize.
According to U.S. officials, Khan, 42, had admitted in 2012 to working with members of the al Qaeda Islamist militant organization that was responsible for the attacks in 2001 to commit murder, provide material support for terrorism, and spy on others. Since then, he had been working as a witness for the government.
He was taken into custody in Pakistan and held at an unidentified “black site” of the CIA from 2003 to 2006.
Thirty-four detainees remain at the Guantanamo Bay facility, down from 800 at its peak, with 20 already eligible for transfer, according to US officials.
According to a statement from the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin informed lawmakers in the United States of his intention to transfer Khan last year.
The Pentagon added, “The United States appreciates Belize’s willingness to support ongoing U.S. efforts focused on responsibly reducing the detainee population and ultimately closing the Guantanamo Bay facility.”
In a 39-page statement that Khan read aloud to a military sentence committee in 2021, he described being hung at the CIA site naked except for a hood over his head and being hung from a beam by his hands for days. Khan stated that guards would “place a fan to blow directly on me” and “throw ice water on my naked body every hour or two.”
Khan described being beaten, subjected to waterboarding, which simulates drowning, and raped anally by objects. He also claimed that he had been kept isolated, starved, and chained in a cell with music playing round-the-clock. According to Khan, this went on for three years, beginning with his arrest in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2003, and continuing until he was sent to Guantanamo Bay.
Under Republican President George W. Bush, the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval base detention camp was established in 2002. Bush’s successor, Democrat President Barack Obama, reduced the number, but Republican opposition in Congress largely stymied his efforts to close the prison.
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