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| Abu Zubaydah 14 yrs in prison, waterboarded 83 times. His tormentors determined he knew nothing of value |
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| John Kiriakou captured AZ but was sent to prison for two years for admitting US interrogators routinely tortured prisoners |
He was thought to be the #3 guy
In the Al-Quaeda leadership
When they first apprehended
Abu Zubaydah fourteen years
Ago when the CIA and Pakistani
Armed forces simultaneously
Raided twelve separate locations
Where he might be. In the
Process he had been shot
Process he had been shot
Three times by a Pakistani with
An AK-47, the leg, the groin,
And the stomach. The CIA got
Him patched up so he would
Live to undergo questioning
By the Agency as to what he
Knew of Al-Quaeda, 9/11,
Their plans, and their training.
That was when John Kiriakou,
A CIA analyst who participated
In his capture had the opportunity
Over his next fifty-six hours in
Captivity to interrogate him.
Following Kiriakou’s questioning
Abu Zubaydah was flown to
A secret prison where the
Senate Report on Torture
Stated he was waterboarded
Eighty-three times before his
Tormentors concluded he knew
Nothing of value. He was not
Charged with a crime nor tried
Primarily because his testimony,
Having been extracted by torture,
Was inadmissible in US court
Proceedings. Authorities decided
Never to release him. He is now
Among the last prisoners at
Guantanamo and Kiriakou is
Advocating his return to Saudi
Arabia as the only moral course.
Kiriakou maintains if Zubaydah
Had committed crimes against
The US, he has certainly paid for
Them by now. It is interesting to
Note that John Kiriakou is the
Only person sent to prison from
The CIA, not for performing
Torture, but for revealing that
Our government was torturing.
He served two years on the charge
Of revealing a CIA operative’s
Identity to a news reporter, much like
Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney’s
Chief of Staff blew Valerie Plame’s
Cover in a move to punish Joe
Wilson for an article that there
Were no yellow-cake (uranium)
Shipments to Iraq which dealt
A serious setback to W’s war
Justification. But returning
To Abu Zubaydah, decide
Were no yellow-cake (uranium)
Shipments to Iraq which dealt
A serious setback to W’s war
Justification. But returning
To Abu Zubaydah, decide
When you would have stopped
Waterboarding him. After the
First time? The tenth?
The twenty-fifth? Now we’re
Getting “enhanced interrogation.”
The twenty-fifth? Now we’re
Getting “enhanced interrogation.”
The fiftieth? The sixtieth? Bringing
A man repeatedly to the point of death
Is risky (much less inhumanly
Callous). Wouldn’t you be fearful
Of killing him by the sixty-fifth?
Or would you get so cocky about it
You’d laugh and say, “C’mon, one
More time—for the Gipper!” Or
Would you consult a Guiness Book
Of World Records to know when
To quit? Mr. Obama set all those
Souls at ease when he stated of the
War crimes, “. . . we need to look
Forward not backward . . “ and
Guaranteed none participating in
The “techniques” would be brought
To justice—except of course for
John Kiriakou who merely told us it
Was going on full blast.*
c. J.S.Manista, 2016
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