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Majid Khan, who has admitted terrorist offences, says: ‘The more I cooperated and told them, the more I was tortured.’
Majid Khan, who has admitted terrorist offences, says: ‘The more I cooperated and told them, the more I was tortured.’
Majid Khan, a former resident of the Baltimore suburbs who became an al-Qaida courier, told jurors considering his sentence for war crimes that he was subjected to days of painful abuse in the clandestine CIA facilities known as "black sites" as interrogators pressed him for information.
It was the first time any of the so-called high-value detainees held at the US base in Cuba have been able to testify about what the US has euphemistically called "enhanced interrogation" but has been widely condemned as torture. "I thought I was going to die," he said.
Comment: Unlike in the West, it seems there are some benefits to having central planners that aren't yet completely ponerized: In China, back in June, amidst spiking commodity prices, it gave billions to its farmers in an attempt to alleviate the burden during harvest time; more recently it cracked down on internet shopping giant Alibaba over its monopolistic practices. That said, it looks like it may be too late for their largest and most indebted property developer, Evergrande, which, even with the state intervention, is predicted to collapse; albeit in a slow and controlled manner which is hoped to lessen the impact on the economy: China's real estate crisis explained
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