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Lawyers for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner said the symbol arose from a classification review that obscured much of the court file.
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 have released a bachelor photo taken by the CIA. of a criminal, Ammar al-Baluchi, his naked, thin and malnourished body appearing around 2004 in a criminal abroad.
The lawyers said the photograph, which was first published through the Guardian newspaper, arose from a classification review procedure through the war tribunal of the army commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
While photographs have been leaked of U. S. infantrymen abusing criminals after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and of the criminal army at Abu Ghraib in Iraq in 2004, none have ever left the CIA. Black s. De fact, in 2005, company leaders destroyed videotapes of interrogations of a black man in Thailand to make sure they were never seen.
These are the kinds of documents that defense attorneys have long tried to provide to a jury or jury as evidence of outrageous government conduct, in order to impose the death penalty or dismiss a war crimes case.
The photo is declassified with the publication of a 2019 dossier through Ammar al-Baluchi’s legal team.
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