Khaled al-Sharif
Khaled al-Sharif is a Libyan who was held for two years in a secret CIA black site, where captives were regularly tortured.[1] After interviewing him Human Rights Watch asserted he had offered a credible account that he had been waterboarded, even though he was not one of the three individuals the CIA has acknowledged they waterboarded.[2]
Al-Sharif was held by the CIA for two years.[1] After his US detention Libya also put al-Shiraf in extrajudicial detention, until the end of the Gaddafi regime.
In March 2008 Amnesty International reported on Khaled al Maqtari, who said the plane that took him to infamous Abu Graib also carried other men - including Khaled al Sharif.[3] He believed al Sharif was also brought to Abu Graib.
Although the CIA concluded the techniques they employed would not cause the victims any long term damage medical professionals who examined the torture survivors described extensive long term damage.[2]
Al-Sharif said that, in 2011, during the initial period of the Arab Spring, ordinary Libyans welcomed the USA playing a role in the overthrow of dictator Muammar Gaddafi.[2] However, since the USA seemed happy to support his replacement by other autocrats, they no longer trust the USA.
After the fall of the Gaddafi regime al-Sharif was appointed the administrator of a prison.[2] In 2015 video emerged of the controversial interrogation of one of Gaddafi's son, at his prison.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Neil Collier, Sheri Fink (2016-10-08). "Memories of a Secret C.I.A. Prison" (video). The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2016-10-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20161008180146/https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000004694493/memories-of-a-secret-cia-prison.html. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Declan Walsh (2019-05-16). "Iran Crisis or ‘Circus’? A Weary Middle East Wonders". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2023-01-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20230129032901/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/world/middleeast/iran-war-fears.html. Retrieved 2024-04-07. "Khaled al-Sharif knows about the sharp end of American policy. A Libyan anti-Qaddafi rebel, he was arrested in Pakistan in 2003 and held for two years in a Central Intelligence Agency dungeon in Afghanistan where, he says, he suffered extensive torture that left him with persistent mental health problems."
- ↑
"USA: A case to answer, From Abu Ghraib to secret CIA custody: The case of Khaled al-Maqtari". Amnesty International. March 2008
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|archivedate=, you must also specify|archiveurl=. https://www.icaed.org/fileadmin/user_upload/amr510132008eng.pdf. Retrieved 2024-04-07. "He was brought to the airstrip in the back of a jeep or truck, and felt that at least one other prisoner, possibly two, was transported with him. He thinks the other detainee transferred with him out of Iraq might have been a Saudi Arabian, whose name, or nickname was Khaled alSharif.20 In Abu Ghraib, they had shown Khaled al-Maqtari a photo showing al-Sharif in Iraq; later, in Afghanistan, they showed him another photos of al-Sharif, this time taken inside the detention facility there."
