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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 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 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.
Lawyers said the photograph, which was first published by the Guardian newspaper, emerged from a classification review procedure through the army commission’s war tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
While photographs have been leaked of U. S. infantrymen abusing criminals after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and of the criminal army at Abu Ghraib in Iraq in 2004, none have ever left the CIA. Black s. De fact, in 2005, company leaders destroyed videotapes of 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 judge 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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