CIA used Jordan to interrogate suspects The US Central Intelligence Agency has used its ties with its Jordanian counterparts to detain and interrogate at least 12 terrorism suspects in Jordan, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Citing unnamed documents, former prisoners and human rights advocates, the newspaper said the detention center located on the outskirts on Amman was mostly used as a covert transit point for CIA prisoners captured elswhere.
Trial Witnesses Kept Secret at Guantanamo A U.S. military judge has ordered attorneys for a Guantanamo prisoner [Omar Khadr] not to reveal the identities of trial witnesses to anybody, including their Canadian-born client, according to recently released documents. The law authorizing the first American war-crimes tribunals since the World War II era allows the [unconstitutional] use of classified evidence, and some parts of 'trials' are expected to take place in closed 'courtrooms.'
Lawyers: Cameraman Held at Gitmo Ill A TV cameraman imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay [Sami al-Hajj] has developed kidney problems and was told by a doctor that he may have cancer, according to notes written by his lawyers and recently cleared for release by the U.S. military.
Jordan's Spy Agency: Holding Cell for the CIA --Foreign Terror Suspects Tell of Torture 01 Dec 2007 (Amman, Jordan) Over the past seven years, an imposing building on the outskirts of this city has served as a secret holding cell for the CIA. The building is the headquarters of the General Intelligence Department, Jordan's powerful spy and security agency. Since 2000, at the CIA's behest, at least 12 non-Jordanian terrorism suspects have been detained and interrogated tortured here, according to documents and former prisoners, human rights advocates, defense lawyers and former U.S. officials. "I was kidnapped, not knowing anything of my fate, with continuous torture and interrogation for the whole of two years," Al-Haj Abdu Ali Sharqawi, a Guantanamo prisoner from Yemen, recounted in a written account of his experiences in Jordanian custody. "When I told them the truth, I was tortured and beaten." Sharqawi was captured in Karachi, Pakistan, in February 2002 in a joint Pakistani-U.S. operation.
Jordan's Spy Agency: Holding Cell for the CIA --Foreign Terror Suspects Tell of Torture 01 Dec 2007 (Amman, Jordan) Over the past seven years, an imposing building on the outskirts of this city has served as a secret holding cell for the CIA. The building is the headquarters of the General Intelligence Department, Jordan's powerful spy and security agency. Since 2000, at the CIA's behest, at least 12 non-Jordanian terrorism suspects have been detained and interrogated tortured here, according to documents and former prisoners, human rights advocates, defense lawyers and former U.S. officials. "I was kidnapped, not knowing anything of my fate, with continuous torture and interrogation for the whole of two years," Al-Haj Abdu Ali Sharqawi, a Guantanamo prisoner from Yemen, recounted in a written account of his experiences in Jordanian custody. "When I told them the truth, I was tortured and beaten." Sharqawi was captured in Karachi, Pakistan, in February 2002 in a joint Pakistani-U.S. operation.
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