{"id":2496,"date":"2005-11-06T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2005-11-06T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-11-06T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2005-11-06T21:14:10","slug":"al-libi-and-the-cheneybush-torture-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/06\/al-libi-and-the-cheneybush-torture-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"al-Libi and the Cheney\/Bush Torture Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Douglas Jehl’s revelations in the New York Times today:<\/A>

A top member of Al Qaeda in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to newly declassified portions of a Defense Intelligence Agency document.<\/p>\n

The document, an intelligence report from February 2002, said it was probable that the prisoner, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, \u201cwas intentionally misleading the debriefers\u2019\u2019 in making claims about Iraqi support for Al Qaeda\u2019s work with illicit weapons.<\/p>\n

The document provides the earliest and strongest indication of doubts voiced by American intelligence agencies about Mr. Libi\u2019s credibility. Without mentioning him by name, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Colin L. Powell, then secretary of state, and other administration officials repeatedly cited Mr. Libi\u2019s information as \u201ccredible\u2019\u2019 evidence that Iraq was training Al Qaeda members in the use of explosives and illicit weapons. <\/BLOCKQUOTE>And how was this garbage “intelligence” obtained? Well, we already know that al-Libi is practically a poster boy for the Cheney\/Bush Torture Regime:

Torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere<\/B><\/A> – Pakistan turns Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi,<\/A> a Libyan national, over to US authorities. Libi is believed to have run the Khaldan paramilitary camp in Afghanistan for al-Qaeda. Interrogations start and a debate soon erupts with regard to which methods can be employed. The CIA advocates threatening him with his life and that of his family. [Washington Post, 6\/27\/2004<\/A>] The CIA’s actions are, according to Newsweek, facilitated by a February 2002 secret presidential order \u201cauthorizing the CIA to establish secret detention facilities outside the US and to use extra harsh interrogation methods\u201d (see After February 7, 2002<\/A>). [Newsweek, 5\/24\/2004<\/A>] Some time after his handover to the US, Al-Libi is rendered to Egypt. According to an ex-FBI official, the CIA \u201cduct-taped his mouth, cinched him up and sent him to Cairo. At the airport the CIA case officer goes up to him and says, \u2018You’re going to Cairo, you know. Before you get there I’m going to find your mother and I’m going to f*** her.\u2019 \u201d [Newsweek, 6\/21\/2004<\/A>] Al-Libi is said to provide the US with valuable intelligence including information about an alleged plot to blow up the US Embassy in Yemen with a truck bomb and the location of Abu Zubaida, who will be captured in March 2002 (see March 28, 2002<\/A>). The FBI has thus far taken the lead in interrogations of terrorist suspects, because its agents are the ones with most experience. The CIA’s success with Al-Libi contributes to the shift of interrogations from the bureau to the CIA. [Washington Post, 6\/27\/2004<\/A>] Such methods as making death threats, advocated by the CIA, are opposed by the FBI, which is used to limiting its questioning techniques so the results from interrogations can be used in court. [Washington Post, 6\/27\/2004<\/A>] \u201cWe don’t believe in coercion,\u201d a senior FBI official says. [The Guardian, 9\/13\/2004<\/A>]<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Douglas Jehl’s revelations in the New York Times today:A top member of Al Qaeda in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to newly declassified […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}