Terror suspect claims captors recorded interrogations and torture

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Source: Chicago Tribune

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"I remember once while being interrogated, the interrogator asked me to wait a second and then I could hear the click of the device and I could hear him changing the cassette," said Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, who spent nearly four years in an Egyptian prison before an Egyptian court ordered his release earlier this year.

The possibility that Egypt and other countries to which the CIA has "rendered" suspected terrorists made audio or videotapes of their interrogations prompted Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to say he will ask CIA Director Michael Hayden on Wednesday whether that agency requested copies of such recordings, "and what has happened to those tapes."

Congress has already asked the Justice Department to look into the CIA's destruction of videotapes of at least two CIA interrogations that took place in 2002. Hayden says the destruction occurred in 2005 to protect the identities of CIA officers involved in the questioning.

Referring to possible tapes from foreign countries where Abu Omar and other terror suspects were interrogated after being taken there by the CIA, Durbin said: "Have any of those tapes been destroyed? The same basic questions of the videotapes will apply here. It's a very important issue. These tapes, whether they're audio or videotapes, are very important to establish how prisoners were treated, prisoners who were placed in the custody of another nation by the United States."





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[balantz]

1. "I'm sorry, but would you mind me pausing your torture for just a wee bit

while I tend to my recording device?"