This is how the CIA’s first captive after 9/11 described his years of torture

This is how the CIA’s first captive after 9/11 described his years of torture

In the evening, while he was held captive at a secret CIA black site in Thailand, the high-value detainee Zayn al-Ibidin Muhammed Husayn said his interrogators would torture him by confining him to a large, six-foot-tall black wooden box in “extremely uncomfortably positions.” Other times, they would force him to spend hours in a small…

America’s Outrageous Ultimatum: Syria as the Libya of the Levant

America’s Outrageous Ultimatum: Syria as the Libya of the Levant

 How the United States presumes to possess the authority to determine the fate of a sovereign nation thousands of miles from its own shores in the Middle East is never explained by US Secretary of State John Kerry when he recently announced a new ultimatum leveled at Damascus. Nor is it explained why Syria should…