On Friday, a military judge confessed that a man accused of conspiracy in the September 11 attacks that were carried out on federal agents in 2007 in Guantenamo Bay, and ruled that the statements were the result of a campaign of torture and isolation conducted by the CIA
The ruling was issued by Colonel Matthew N. Maccal is the last relapse of prosecutors in Long -term pursuit To submit the death case to the trial, despite the years spent by the five defendants in the Secret CIA prisons.
Ammar Bluchi47, was completely conditioned by abuse and threats during his period in the agency’s external prisons, or black sites, from 2003 to 2006 to the point that he criminalized himself involuntarily in 2007, and the judge wrote in a decision of 111 pages.
Mr. Balochi, who was charged in the case in the name of Ali Abdel Aziz Ali, was accused of sending money and providing other support to some of the kidnappers who carried out the attack, which killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001.
He is the nephew of Khaled Sheikh Muhammad, the man accused of the mastermind of the attack. Mr. Mohamed and two defendants in the case have reached the approval agreements with the public prosecutors Competition is now in the Federal Court. A The fifth defendant Inappropriately inappropriate for trial, a condition that his lawyer blames to torture him by the CIA
The certificate derived from the documents of the CIA showed that Mr. Bluchi remained naked and routinely beaten during his early days of the agency’s nursery on the “Mohsen Interrogation” program, which was designed by two psychologists on the CIA contract
The looking students took turns criticizing his head on the wall. He was deprived of sleep for 82 consecutive hours by restrictions on the ankles and wrists in a way that forced him to stand, naked, with a headscarf on his head. It was made to fear that it will drown in a fake identity technique in which he was placed on the hemp fabric when the cold water was poured on a towel covering its face.
By the time when he arrived in Guantenamo, he underwent 1100 rounds of interrogation in the CIA custody, some with the interrogation of the agency ask questions provided by FiBi.
Colonel McCul wrote: “Just as psychologists at the CIA, Mr. Ali learned that he was unable to resist torture, and that cooperation means reducing abuse and increasing rewards.”
The judge wrote: “The aim of the program was to adapt it through torture and other inhuman and coercive methods to be compatible during any government interrogation.” “The program has worked.”
The decision has not been fully issued, pending a review of classified information. But lawyers who have access to the document presented unknown clips.
the The question of whether interrogation can be used in the trial It was a major axis of the case for seven years, as he took thousands of pages from the travelers before the trial and dozens of witness days.
Prosecutors argued that by the time of his interrogation in January 2007, his fourth month in Guantanamo Bay, Mr. Bluchi is no longer afraid of his kidnappers and participated in three days of interrogation. The judge indicated that the argument may be more reputable if the agents had read it from a traditional text of his right not to criminalize himself. But they did not.
Alca Bradhan, a human rights lawyer, welcomed Mr. Balochi, by refereeing, saying that he confessed to “the brutal torture he suffered in the American hands.”
Ms. Bradhan continued: “It is also a reminder to the United States that governments that commit crimes must be responsible.” “The American people, constitutional values, and the rule of law have paid a heavy price for two decades of punishment for the torture program.”
No records or texts were recorded from Mr. Bluchi’s interrogation. Instead, the agents described his answers and behavior in a 45 -page memorandum, which the judge ruled on Friday would be unacceptable in the trial.
Admiral Aaron C. On Saturday, Ragge, chief of Guantenamo cases, said that his office was reviewing the ruling and “would make a decision on the appeal in the near future.”
The Guantenamo Special Court aims to address the effect of the previous violent central intelligence agency. But Colonel McClic, who will retire from the Air Force, has become the second military judge who suppresses the defendant’s confessions in the capital that he is not voluntary.
In 2023, an army judge, Colonel Lani J. Acosta Junior, Confessing The Saudi defendant, who was charged with the bombing of maritime destroyer Cole-is the longest capital case in Guantanamo. And he decided that “any resistance may be the accused who tends to put it when he asked him to criminalize himself, he was intentionally and beaten him literally years ago.”
Later prosecutors This decision resumed and lost. In this case, the defendant, Abdul Ibrahim Al -Nashir, is scheduled to be tried on October 6, 25 years after the bombing of al -Qaeda, which killed 17 seas on board the ship off Aden, Yemen.
