[Peace-discuss] European court takes on torture case of Abu Zubaydah, whom government now admits was innocent

[Stuart Levy]

(via United for Peace and Justice mailing list)

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From: "ralphlopez ." <ralphlopez2008 at gmail.com> 
Date: 12/04/2013  17:40  (GMT-06:00) 
To: National Impeachment Network <national-impeachment-network at googlegroups.com>,Cynthia Papermaster <cynthia_papermaster at yahoo.com>,ufpj-activist at lists.mayfirst.org,Andy Worthington <andy at andyworthington.co.uk> 
Subject: [ufpj-activist] European court takes on torture case of Abu
  Zubaydah, whom government now admits was innocent 
 
This is huge because one of the torture victims is Abu Zubaydah, whom
the government now admits was never a part of Al Qaeda, yet it built
numerous Ponzi scheme cases on him.  Americans will never care about
anyone they think is a "terrorist" getting tortured, because they
think they "deserve everything they got.".  But there is strong
evidence that Zubaydah was completely innocent, so this can get
traction.  Same with Binyam Mohammed  The take-away is BUSH/CHENEY
TORTURED INNOCENT PEOPLE., SO OBAMA IS PROTECTING KNOWN WAR CRIMINALS.

Article Boston Globe "Terror suspects are victims, lawyers say"
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2013/12/04/europe-rights-court-hearing-secret-cia-prisons/29ly5I6O2PXnGWH82gsuNO/story.html


FROM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Zubaydah#U.S._government_admits_Abu_Zubaydah_was_never_a_member_of_al_Qaeda

"U.S. government admits Abu Zubaydah was never a member of al Qaeda

Top officials in the U.S. government refused to believe Abu Zubaydah
was not the operative they believed him to be.[15][94] The May 30,
2005 Department of Justice memo noted that while on-scene
interrogators believed Abu Zubaydah no longer had any information to
disclose, CIA Headquarters ordered additional
waterboarding.[94][original research?] The interrogators believed the
waterboarding was "unnecessary."[94][original research?] Orders for
the additional waterboarding likely came from Dick Cheney
directly.[143][original research?]Additionally, the Bush White House
and CIA officials couldn't believe Abu Zubaydah didn't have additional
information.[15] One official stated the pressure from upper levels of
government was "tremendous," and that "[t]hey couldn't stand the idea
that there wasn't anything new."[15] The official said, "[t]hey'd say,
'You aren't working hard enough.' There was both a disbelief in what
he was saying and also a desire for retribution – a feeling that 'He's
going to talk, and if he doesn't talk, we'll do whatever.'"[15]

But, in September 2009, the Obama administration acknowledged during
Abu Zubaydah's habeas corpus petition, that Abu Zubaydah had never
been a member of al-Qaeda, nor involved in the attacks on the African
embassies in 1998, nor the attacks on the United States on September
11, 2001 as exclusively reported by investigative reporter Jason
Leopold http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/040110a.html[154] The
motion, filed by the United States Government, states:

Evidence indicating that Petitioner is not a member of al-Qaida or had
ideological differences with al-Qaida is not inconsistent with the
factual allegations made in the Government's factual return, because
the Government has not contended in this proceeding that Petitioner
was a member of al-Qaida or otherwise formally identified with
al-Qaida. Pg. 35, 36

Respondent [The United States Government] does not contend that
Petitioner [Abu Zubaydah] was a "member" of al-Qaida in the sense of
having sworn a bayat (allegiance) or having otherwise satisfied any
formal criteria that either Petitioner [Abu Zubaydah] or al-Qaida may
have considered necessary for inclusion in al-Qaida. Nor is the
Government detaining Petitioner [Abu Zubaydah] based on any allegation
that Petitioner [Abu Zubaydah] views himself as part of al-Qaida as a
matter of subjective personal conscience, ideology, or worldview. Pg.
36

The Government has not contended in this proceeding that Petitioner
[Abu Zubaydah] had any direct role in or advance knowledge of the
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Pg. 82

For example, for purposes of this proceeding the Government has not
contended that Petitioner [Abu Zubaydah] had any personal involvement
in planning or executing either the 1998 embassy bombings... or the
attacks on September 11, 2001. Pg. 34"


The truth about Abu Zubaydah
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/mar/30/guantanamo-abu-zubaydah-torture
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