This is a series of diaries written about torture written from the perspective of the one enduring it, with as many first hand accounts as I can find.
This is a continuation of the re-start of the series, which I first published here about two years ago.
Here is the link of the restart of the series: http://www.dailykos.com/...
Here is the link to the second diary in the restart of the series :
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Here is the link for the third diary in the series: http://www.dailykos.com/...
Here is the link for the fourth diary: http://www.dailykos.com/...
Here is the link for the fifth diary: http://www.dailykos.com/...
Here is the link for the sixth diary in the series: http://www.dailykos.com/...
Here is the link for the seventh diary in the series: http://www.dailykos.com/...
Here is the link for last night's diary in the series:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Ordinarily, I will publishing at 7:30pm EST. I apologize for being late tonight; it's been a really bad day, with very bad news from a friend of over thirty years. I will be publishing the series for a total of 40 days, and perhaps continue after that as well.
Today, is a short diary, because not much is known about the sons of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Yousef al-Khalid, then age 9, and Abed al-Khalid, then age 7, were kidnapped in 2002. The CIA acknowledged that they had the boys in 2003.
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Here is an excerpt from the time of their kidnapping:
We have your sons: CIA
March 10 2003
By Olga Craig
Kuwait
Two young sons of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks, are being used by the CIA to force their father to talk.
Yousef al-Khalid, 9, and his brother, Abed al-Khalid, 7, were taken into custody in Pakistan in September when intelligence officers raided a flat in Karachi where their father had been hiding.
Mohammed fled just hours before the raid but his sons and another senior al-Qaeda member were found cowering behind a wardrobe in the apartment.
The boys have been held by the Pakistani authorities but this weekend they were flown to America where they will be questioned about their father. CIA interrogators confirmed that the boys were staying at a secret address where they were being encouraged to talk about their father's activities. "We are handling them with kid gloves," said one official. "After all, they are only little children, but we need to know as much about their father's recent activities as possible. We have child psychologists on hand at all times and they are given the best of care."
Here is an excerpt from the affidavit of the father of one of their first cellmates, who says they were TORTURED, using INSECTS and FOOD DEPRIVATION:
http://en.wikisource.org/...
Also according to Mohammed, he and Majid were detained in the same place where two of Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s young children, ages about 6 and 8, were held. The Pakistani guards told my son that the boys were kept in a separate area upstairs, and were denied food and water by other guards. They were also mentally tortured by having ants or other creatures put on their legs to scare them and get them to say where their father was hiding.
Here is part of the statement by Khalid Sheikh Mohammad at his Combatant Status Review hearing, about his children:
(I can't get pdf links to copy. Sorry.)
They arrested my kids intentionally. They are kids. They been arrested for four months they had been abused.
We don't know where these boys are. We don't know whether they are alive or dead.
Should children pay for the assumed crimes of their father ?
Please, help to find these children. Ask the President where they. Ask your senators where they are. Ask your congressional representative where they are. Please don't let them be forgotten.
Standing for justice and accountability,
For Dan,
Heather