Was Tortured CIA "Ghost Prisoner" Murdered?

By Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. Posted May 13, 2009.

I also wonder how Dick Cheney is proposing to spin his way out of his involvement in a story that clearly seems to have demonstrated the very opposite of everything that he has claimed, and whether he will be called upon to answer an allegation made by Noman Benotman, an exiled opponent of the Gaddafi regime, who told Newsweek in 2007 that a senior Libyan official had told him that "the Libyan government has agreed not to publicly confirm anything about al-Libi -- out of deference to the Bush administration." Benotman explained, "If the Libyans will confirm it, it will embarrass the Americans because he is linked to the Iraq issue."

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Andy Worthington is a writer and historian, and author of The Guantánamo Files.

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