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Lawyers for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner said the symbol arose from a classification review that obscured much of the court record.
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 held by the CIA at the Bush administration’s secret criminal sites overseas, 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 body appearing naked, thin and malnourished, around 2004 in a criminal abroad.
Lawyers said the photograph, which was first published by the Guardian newspaper, emerged from a classification review procedure through the Army Commissions’ Court of War at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
While photographs have leaked of American infantrymen brutalizing criminals after the September 11, 2001, attacks, and of the criminal army at Abu Ghraib in Iraq in 2004, none have emerged from CIA blacks. In fact, in 2005, company executives destroyed video tapes of the interrogations of a black man in Thailand to ensure they would never be 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 record registered in 2019 through Ammar al-Baluchi’s legal team.
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