After September 11, 2001, U.S. officials authorized the cruel treatment and torture of prisoners held in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, and the CIA's secret prisons overseas.

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This is an NCIS investigation of the apparent suicide deaths of three Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2009. The Detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani; Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi; and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each apparently took their own lives by ...
Investigative File (NCIS)
Yasser Al Zahrani, Ali Abdullah Ahmed, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi
This is an NCIS investigation of the apparent suicide deaths of three Guantanamo Bay detainees on June 10, 2009. The Detainees: Yasser Al Zahrani; Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi; and Ali Abdullah Ahmed each apparently took their own lives by ...
Investigative File (NCIS)
Yasser Al Zahrani, Ali Abdullah Ahmed, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi
The detainee being interviewed states that that detainee in Cell #39 on his Block is the leader of the Arab detainees and he is organizing them to resist efforts to be interrogated. He states that this detainee in Cell #39 speaks English and "He ...
This chart contains information on suicide attempts made by Guantanamo Bay detainees as of June 10, 2006. The Detainee No. and Date of Event columns are redacted. The Method of Attempt, Number of Attempts, and Prognosis of each attempt are also ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his work experience with the Hostage Rescue Team, concerns about the Department of Defense's interrogation techniques, and the discrepancy between his ...
The document is a letter from the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General to the ACLU's National Security Project, regarding the ACLU's April 22nd, 2008 FOIA request. The letter is a cover letter for summaries of interviews conducted ...
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding an attached urgent report that provides details from a military service member deployed in Iraq who observed serious physical abuses of civilian detainees in Samara, Iraq in the fall of 2003.
The document is an internal FBI email sent from Eleni Kalisch to FBI Director Robert Mueller, regarding an HPSCI briefing concerning detainee interrogations. The briefing included information about the yield of information from detainee ...
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with detainee Moazzem Begg, regarding his general knowledge of incarceration in Egypt, his allegations of being threatened by two FBI agents, and his experiences being detained and ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Moazzam Begg