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Lawyers for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner said the symbol arose from a classification review that obscured much of the court record.
By Carol Rosenberg
Report from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
For years, defense lawyers in the Guantanamo cases have talked about reviewing disturbing government photographs of criminals detained by the CIA at the Bush administration’s secret criminal sites abroad, the black sites. But they were classified and the world was not allowed to see them. Until now.
Lawyers in the 9/11 case released a photo taken by the CIA of a criminal, Ammar al-Baluchi, showing his naked, thin and malnourished body, circa 2004 on a criminal abroad.
Lawyers said the photograph, which was first published by the Guardian newspaper, emerged from a classification review procedure through the military commissions, war tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
While photographs have leaked of American infantrymen brutalizing criminals after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and of the criminal army at Abu Ghraib in Iraq in 2004, none have ever come out of the CIA. black s. In fact, in 2005, company leaders destroyed video tapes of interrogations of a black man in Thailand to ensure they were never seen.
These are the type of documents that defense attorneys have long attempted to provide to a jury or jury as evidence of outrageous government conduct, in order to hand down a death sentence or dismiss a criminal case. war crimes.
The photo is declassified with the publication of a 2019 dossier through Ammar al-Baluchi’s legal team.
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