THE DAILY BLADE: Are US Interrogation Techniques Abusive Or Are They Effective?
Abu Zubaydah, the first of Osama bin Laden’s lieutenants captured in Pakistan by the U.S. after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was spirited to a secret safe house in Thailand by the CIA for interrogation. The New York Times notes that “President Bush pointedly cited the capture and interrogation of Mr. Zubaydah in his speech last Wednesday announcing the transfer of Mr. Zubaydah and 13 others to the American detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
