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Lawyers for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner said the symbol was the result of a classification review that obscured much of the legal case.
By Carol Rosenberg
Report from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
For years, defense lawyers in the Guantanamo cases have talked about reviewing disturbing government photographs of prisoners held by the CIA. in the Bush administration’s secret prison, the black sites. But they were classified and the aggregate could not 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.
The lawyers said the photograph, which was first published through the Guardian newspaper, arose from a classification review procedure through the army’s commissions, the court-martial 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 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 hand down a death sentence or dismiss a felony case. war crimes.
The photo is declassified with the publication of a 2019 file through Ammar al-Baluchi’s legal team.
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