Suleiman Abdallah

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Suleiman Abdallah
Nationality Tanzania
Occupation fisherman
Known for Tortured for five years by the CIA due to an incompetent mistaken identification

Suleiman Abdallah was a citizen of Tanzania who was held in secret extrajudicial detention by the CIA, tortured, only to be released five years later, with a declaration of innocence.[1][2][3][4][5] He was captured by a Somali warlord, on a trip to Mogadishu. Kenyan security officials help broker his sale to the CIA. Abdallah was held in at least three of the CIA's black sites, in Dijbouti, and Afghanistan.

Clara Gutteridge, his lawyer, said when she first met him, in 2009, years after she learned of his case in 2006, he was a "broken man" by his years of brutal detention.[2] Gutteridge described spending years trying to determine the location of Abdallah, and other men swept up by US intelligence officials. She described finding a fragmentary 2003 report from CNN, about his capture, that said he was expected to be sent to the USA to stand trial for a role in al-Qaeda's 1998 bombing of American embassies in Africa.[6] Gutteridge wrote that a 2007 report from West Point's Countering Terrorism Center said that his initial captors had sold Abdallah to the CIA claiming he was Fazul Mohammed, a terror suspect from the Commoro Islands. In 2008 she learned, unofficially, that he had been transferred to a prison in Bagram.

Aggrey Mutambo wrote, in Kenya's Daily Nation, that the CIA soon realized that Abdallah was an innocent man, and they spend five years trying to torture him into a false confession, so they would have a justification for his detention.

On December 9, 2014, the United States Senate Intelligence Committee published a 600 page unclassified summary of a 6,000 page classified report on the CIA's use of torture.[7] The National Journal reported that the Report found that the CIA had held at least 199 captives -- not the "less than 100", they routinely reported to the public and the House and Senate Intelligence committees. Abdallah was one of 26 of those secret captives that the Committee found had been torture without authorization.

References

  1. Juan Gonzalez (2012-07-06). "Rendered, Tortured & Discarded: A Shocking Story of an Innocent Man’s Ordeal in U.S. Prisons Abroad". Democracy Now. http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/6/rendered_tortured_discarded_a_shocking_story. Retrieved 2014-12-13. "A new exposé by human rights investigator Clara Gutteridge for The Nation magazine looks at secret U.S. operations in Africa and how the United States rendered, tortured and discarded one innocent man from Tanzania. Suleiman Abdallah was captured in Mogadishu in 2003 by a Somali warlord and handed over to U.S. officials, who had him rendered to Afghanistan for five years of detention and torture. Imprisoned in three different U.S. facilities, Abdallah said he was subjected to severe beatings, prolonged solitary confinement, forced nakedness and humiliation. He said he was also sexually assaulted, locked naked in a coffin, and forced to lie on a wet mat, naked and handcuffed." 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Clara Gutteridge (2012-07-26). "How the US Rendered, Tortured and Discarded One Innocent Man". The Nation. http://www.thenation.com/article/168621/how-us-rendered-tortured-and-discarded-one-innocent-man#. Retrieved 2014-12-13. "In fall 2009, I found myself in a Tanzanian hotel lobby, sitting across from Suleiman Abdallah, a lanky man with a goofy smile and a broken tooth. Over the next few days, he would describe in excruciating detail how he had been captured in Mogadishu in 2003 by a Somali warlord and handed over to American officials, who had him rendered via Kenya and Djibouti to Afghanistan for five years of detention and torture. Imprisoned in three different US facilities, Suleiman had been unceremoniously released from Bagram Air Force Base the year before, with a piece of paper confirming his detention as well as his innocence. By the time I met him, he was a free man, living with his mother and attempting to rebuild his life." 
  3. Andy Worthington (2010-06-16). "UN Secret Detention Report (Part Two): CIA Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq". http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/06/16/un-secret-detention-report-part-two-cia-prisons-in-afghanistan-and-iraq/. Retrieved 2014-12-13. "Very loud music was played continuously. He also indicated that he had been subjected to sleep deprivation for up to three days and received threats. Binyam Mohamed provided a similar account to the experts [see annex II, case 18], as did the lawyer of Khaled El-Masri [annex II, case 9] and Suleiman Abdallah [annex II, case 2]." 
  4. Steven G. Bradbury (2005-05-03). "Memorandum for John A. Rizzo Senior Deputy General Counsel, Dentral Intelligence Agency". Department of Defense Office of Legal Counsel. http://luxmedia.com.edgesuite.net/aclu/olc_05302005_bradbury.pdf. Retrieved 2014-12-13. 
  5. "Suleiman Abdallah: Black Holes and Mock Burial". Empty Wheel. 2012-06-29. https://www.emptywheel.net/tag/suleiman-abdallah/. Retrieved 2014-12-13. "Then there’s the mock burial–the only treatment John Yoo ever deemed torture. While Abdallah’s torturers might call the coffin “small box confinement,” between that and the funeral shroud, the intent of the treatment seems fairly clear." 
  6. Aggrey Mutambo (2014-12-10). "US Senate report on CIA torture reveals Kenya role". Daily Nation. http://www.nation.co.ke/news/CIA-Torture-US-Senate-Report-Kenya-Somalia/-/1056/2551848/-/mffje3z/-/index.html. Retrieved 2014-12-13. "One of the alleged inmates of the “prison” was Ahmed Abdullahi Hassan, a Kenyan who authorities had suspected of having a strong association with global terror organisation al-Qaeda. He was arrested in 2009 in Nairobi but disappeared shortly after." 
  7. Emma Roller, Rebecca Nelson (2014-12-10). "What CIA Interrogators Did To 17 Detainees Without Approval". National Journal. Archived from the original on 2014-12-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20141211020306/http://www.nationaljournal.com/defense/what-cia-interrogators-did-to-17-detainees-without-approval-20141210. Retrieved 2014-12-10. "You probably haven't heard many of these names before. But they are important, both in terms of the terrorist plots they either planned or executed, and in how the U.S. government treated them once they became prisoners, according to the newly released Senate Intelligence Committee's torture report."