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Exclusive: I Was Kidnapped by the CIA
NEWS: Inside the CIA's extraordinary rendition program and the
bungled abduction of would-be terrorists
By Peter Bergen
03/03/08 "Mother
Jones" -- - For
hours, the words come pouring out of Abu Omar as he describes
his years of torture at the hands of Egypt's security services.
Spreading his arms in a crucifixion position, he demonstrates
how he was tied to a metal door as shocks were administered to
his nipples and genitals. His legs tremble as he describes how
he was twice raped. He mentions, almost casually, the hearing
loss in his left ear from the beatings, and how he still wakes
up at night screaming, takes tranquilizers, finds it hard to
concentrate, and has unspecified "problems with my wife at
home." He is, in short, a broken man.
There is nothing particularly unusual about Abu Omar's story.
Torture is a standard investigative technique of Egypt's
intelligence services and police, as the State Department and
human rights organizations have documented myriad times over the
years. What is somewhat unusual is that Abu Omar ended up inside
Egypt's torture chambers courtesy of the United States, via an
"extraordinary rendition"—in this case, a spectacular daylight
kidnapping by the Central Intelligence Agency on the streets of
Milan, Italy.
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