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On October 8, 2016, Pullitzer Prize winners Matt Apuzzo and James Risen reported on How U.S. Torture Left a Legacy of Damaged Minds[1] I am going to take the wikilinkable names from that article, and list them here...

Hussein al-Marfadi

Lutfi bin Ali

Majid Mokhtar Sasy al-Maghrebi

Younous Chekkouri

CIA black sites
nation
Stare Kiejkuty Poland
Vilnius Lithuania
Bucharest Romania
Guantánamo Bay Cuba
Chiang Mai Thailand
Kabul Afghanistan

Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser.

Albert J. Shimkus, a retired Navy captain who served as the commanding officer of the Guantánamo hospital in the prison’s early years

Mohammed Abdullah Saleh al-Asad, a businessman in Tanzania

Lutfi bin Ali, a former detainee now living in Kazakhstan

Stephen N. Xenakis, a former military psychiatrist

Omar Khadr

John Rizzo, the C.I.A.’s top lawyer at the time.

James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen Two veteran SERE psychologists,

Martin E. P. Seligman “learned helplessness,” a phrase coined by the American psychologist


Mohamed Ben Soud drew pictures depicting his treatment in a C.I.A. prison

the Salt Pit, was perpetually dark, so the days passed imperceptibly.

water dousing,” but the term belies the grisly details. Mr. Ben Soud, in court documents and interviews, described being forced onto a plastic tarp while naked, his hands shackled above his head. Sometimes he was hooded. One C.I.A. official poured buckets of ice water on him as others lifted the tarp’s corners, sending water splashing over him and causing a choking or drowning sensation. He said he endured the treatment multiple times.

Khaled al-Sharif, rendered to Libya in 2004 after two years in C.I.A. secret prisons

Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen, is the best known case.


Rear Adm. Peter J. Clarke, the commander at Guantánamo, said in an interview: “What I observe are detainees who are well adjusted, and I see no indications of ill effects of anything that may have happened in the past.”

Richard Quattrone of the Navy, who left his post as the prison’s chief medical officer in September

Mohammed Jawad was seen talking to a poster on the wall

BSCT (pronounced “Biscuit”) psychologist

military prosecutor, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, withdrew from the case

Katherine Porterfield, a New York University psychologist

Andy Davidson, a retired Navy captain who served as the chief psychologist


Vincent Iacopino, the medical director for Physicians for Human Rights,

Ahmed Errachidi, released without charge after five years. Tangier, Morocco

Tarek El Sawah, a former detainee, has headaches, mood fluctuations and eating compulsions

Hussein al-Marfadi, a former detainee, describes permanent headaches and

During a courtroom break, one of the men, Ammar al-Baluchi, asked to speak with a doctor.

Xavier Amador, a New York psychologist

lawyer, James G. Connell III

Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who admits helping plan the Sept. 11 attacks

Abd al-Nashiri ... Accused in the U.S.S. Cole bombing

waterboarding, mock execution, rectal feeding and other techniques — some approved, some not — at C.I.A. sites

Hussein al-Marfadi HUSSEIN AL-MARFADI, released without charge after 12 years. Zvolen, Slovakia Interrogation’s Shadow

In Libya today, a former C.I.A. prisoner named Salih Hadeeyah al-Daeiki


Last year, a video surfaced showing Colonel Qaddafi’s son, Saadi Qaddafi

  1. ^ "How U.S. Torture Left a Legacy of Damaged Minds". Archived from the original on 2016-10-13. Retrieved 2016-10-10.